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North Korea vows to redraw sea boundary

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Published: Jan. 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM

SEOUL, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- North Korea Saturday vowed to "shatter" South Korea's military in an attempt to redraw the inter-Korean boundary in the Yellow Sea.

North Korea maintains the boundary line should be moved further south of where it was unilaterally drawn by U.S.-led forces at the end of the Korea War in 1953, Yonhap News Agency reported Saturday.

"Our revolutionary armed forces are compelled to take an all-out confrontational posture to shatter them," a spokesman for the North Korean military said of South Korea's navy.

South Korea said its military is on heightened alert in preparation for clashes in the disputed waters, Yonhap reported. In 1999 and 2002, fighting between the two Koreas in the Yellow Sea left scores of soldiers on both sides dead or wounded.

North Korea's vow to confront South Korea came just hours after North Korea said it would maintain its nuclear capability until it feels safe from the United States, Yonhap reported.

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