Marking the army day, North Korea on Wednesday warned of ‘retaliatory war’ against its neighbor, the South, accusing Seoul and Washington of plotting war against Pyongyang.

Marking the army day, North Korea on Wednesday warned of ‘retaliatory war’ against its neighbor, the South, accusing Seoul and Washington of plotting war against Pyongyang.

President Kim Jong-Un with military chiefs during military day

Military chief, Vice-Marshal Ri Yong-Ho, credited Kim Jong-Un’s late father Kim Jong-Il with strengthening the 1.2 million-strong military in the communist state.
"Our military is now equipped with strong modern weapons capable of destroying what the imperialists call highly sophisticated weapons by a single blow".

"Our military and people are full of rage against the (South's President) Lee Myung-Bak's traitor groups, who dared to commit such an extreme criminal act as defaming our system and the top leadership", Ri told a national meeting in the April 25 House of Culture.

"Our military and people will launch a retaliatory war in our own way... to cut the throats of the reckless provocateurs and crush the source of provocations without a trace".
The US and its ally the South were making "ever-intensifying plots for war", he said.

The ceremony attended by Kim Jong-Un and other top leaders marked the 80th anniversary of the military's founding, during the guerrilla struggle against Japanese colonial forces.