N Korea ready to counter US aggression
Ap, Seoul
North Korea accused the United States of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula "to the brink of war," and said it is fully prepared to counter any US aggression. The North's latest burst of its anti-US rhetoric came as Washington increases scrutiny and pressure on the communist nation over concern it may test-launch a long-range missile believed capable of hitting the United States. "Today's grave situation in which the US ... is driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war proves once again that peace has been able to be maintained ... only because we have a strong war deterrent," said the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement issued Friday night.
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