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The commander of the U.S. Pacific Command says the U.S. may launch a surgical strike against missile bases and nuclear test sites in North Korea if it conducts a third nuclear test.

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With an array of artillery trained on Seoul, North Korea could easily blast the glass towers of the South's booming capital for days and kill huge numbers of civilians before US and South Korean forces prevailed, experts said.

"Official Pentagon models assume it would take months to win the war at a cost approaching one million casualties or more, all told, including dead and wounded," Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told AFP.

"And that's without nuclear weapons being used," said O'Hanlon, who wrote a book looking at the effects of a potential war.

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The Associated Press reported from Pyongyang that the Korean Central News Agency said the nation would press on with its space ambitions because it no longer feels bound by the food aid agreement, now that Washington has abandoned it.

“We have thus become able to take necessary retaliatory measures, free from the agreement,” the North Korean news agency said, citing a statement from the Foreign Ministry. “The U.S. will be held wholly accountable for all the ensuing consequences.”

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N. Korea threatens to blow up Seoul over defamation of its leader

North Korea will stage a "sacred war to wipe out the group of traitors unless South Korea immediately apologize for insulting" the anniversary celebrations, the North Korean government said in an English-language dispatch carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

"As even the heart of Seoul is served as a base for provocative acts of hurting the dignity of the (North)'s supreme leadership, the (North) will take a special action to blow up everything there," the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army warned in an English-language statement carried by the KCNA.

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#DPRK: Precious "data & precious experience gained this time...a reliable guarantee for greater success in the days ahead."

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#DPRK vowing no matter what US, Japan "reactionaries" & #ROK Pres. Lee "group of rats" think it'll launch space sats "one after another."

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#ROK media now abuzz with Kyodo report from a "South Korean gov't source" saying 2nd rocket still at new #DPRK launch site.

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US says China may have assisted with North Korean missile programme

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U.S. worried about N. Korea's mobile missile capability

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Report: N. Korea nuclear test may come within 2 weeks

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North Korea vows military "special action" soon against #ROK president Lee, his followers "including the conservative media."

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#DPRK TV broke into programming to make the special announcement. This is not one of those "routine" nasty threats from Pyongyang it seems.

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DPRK: Attack on #ROK will be carried out by "special operation action unit" under the military high command. #Korea

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A KCNA report yesterday said that “Once an order is issued, we will … behead and dismember Lee Myung Bak and wipe out his stooges.”

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DPRK: Once "special action" commences the "rat-like groups & the bases for provocations" will be reduced "to ashes in 3 to 4 minutes."

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N. Korea says this will be accomplished "by unprecedented peculair means & methods of our own style."

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Some sources I'm speaking with (jn & out of gov't) speculate the threat could indicate plans for a big cyber attack on #ROK from #DPRK.

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The special announcement from Pyongyang concludes "Our revolutionary armed forces do not make empty talk."

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China lauds North Korea friendship despite tensions