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North Korea won't warn South before attacks

By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com
A photo of North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un is displayed on a picture board in front of the North Korean embassy in Beijing on March 22, 2013. China is willing to promote dialogue between North and South Korea as stability on the Korean peninsula is also in China's best interest, President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart this week. Beijing is North Korea's sole diplomatic and economic ally, but relations have been strained by Pyongyang's bellicose actions and threats to the United States and South Korea. UPI/Stephen Shaver
1 of 3 | A photo of North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un is displayed on a picture board in front of the North Korean embassy in Beijing on March 22, 2013. China is willing to promote dialogue between North and South Korea as stability on the Korean peninsula is also in China's best interest, President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart this week. Beijing is North Korea's sole diplomatic and economic ally, but relations have been strained by Pyongyang's bellicose actions and threats to the United States and South Korea. UPI/Stephen Shaver | License Photo

North Korean authorities and threatening its southern neighbors over a "monstrous" rally it claims was held in Seoul on the day it celebrated the country's founder, Kim Il Sung.

The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, released a bellicose statement Tuesday on behalf of the Korean People's Army supreme command, promising attack "without any notice" on South Korea over the "monstrous criminal act" offending Kim.

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"Our retaliatory action will start without any notice from now as such thrice-cursed criminal act of hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK is being openly committed in the heart of Seoul under the patronage of the puppet authorities," the statement read.

Demanding an apology for "all anti-DPRK hostile acts, big and small," Pyongyang said military actions against targets immediately in "powerful sledge-hammer blows."

North Koreans celebrated Monday the birthday of Kim Il Sung, who launched the war splitting the peninsula.

South Korean officials said they have been monitoring their neighbor's military movements as it has operated joint exercises with U.S. allies.

An American helicopter made a hard landing near the border, 55 miles north of Seoul, early Tuesday, sparking yet another round of threats from Pyongyang.

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