North Korea threatens 'sacred war' against South

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north-korea-threatens-sacred-war-against-south-2304197.html

North Korea threatened today to launch a "sacred war" against South Korea even as a delegation from Seoul travelled across the countries' heavily fortified border for a meeting on a stalled joint tourism project.

A North Korean government spokesman accused front-line South Korean army units of setting up "virulent" signs that slander North Korea and of inciting "extreme hostility" toward Pyongyang.

"This is little short of a clear declaration of war," the unidentified spokesman said in comments carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

"We will react to the enemy's provocation with a stern punishment and counter its war with a merciless retaliatory sacred war."

One of these days the headline will read 'North Korea transported to Mars, threatens sacred war on Earth'.