Tensions rising in Korean peninsula

South Korea's plans to partly restructure the 1950s inter-Korean war have gone down badly with the North which still bears grudges against its southern neighbor.

If South Korean authorities "keep escalating the tensions and the danger of war... they will have to pay dearly for them," wrote the Rodong Sinmun daily, the official organ of the central committee of the ruling North Korean party, according to a report by AFP.

"This is an unpardonable provocation to [the Democratic People's Republic of Korea] DPRK and an intolerable criminal act of escalating the inter-Korean confrontation and tensions," the paper added.

The 1950-1953 war bore historic setbacks for the North.

The South-based commemoration next year would involve a replay of the conflict's turning points namely part of the Battle of Incheon when, notably outnumbering the North Koreans, the UN forces ended Pyongyang's winning streak at the beginning of the war.

Pyongyang has continually held the United States liable for the propulsion of the hostilities and protested at the position of the maritime border unilaterally drawn between the two countries at the conclusion of the war by the US-led United Nations' forces.

"Through these farces the South Korean rulers seek to extol the US, which ignited the Korean War," the daily said.

Seoul and Washington have likewise maintained a tough language vis-à-vis Pyongyang for its departure from the nuclear disarmament talks in 2007, running a second nuclear test in May and its re-launching of programs aimed at weaponization of nuclear materials.

Source: PressTV.
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