Global Courant
SEOUL – North Korea held mass rallies in Pyongyang where people chanted slogans promising a “war of vengeance” to destroy the United States.
About 120,000 workers and students took part in the rallies held in the capital on Sunday, state news agency KCNA reported.
Photos released by the state media showed a stadium full of people holding signs reading “The entire US mainland is within our firing range” and “The Imperialist US is the Destroyer of Peace”.
Sunday’s anniversary arose amid concerns that Pyongyang could soon launch another launch of its first military spy satellite to boost monitoring of US military activity after the first attempt ended in failure on May 31.
North Korea now had “the strongest absolute weapon to punish the US imperialists” and the “avengers on this country are burning with the indomitable will to avenge the enemy,” KCNA said.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has tested several weapons, including its largest intercontinental ballistic missile, raising tensions with the South and the South’s main ally, the United States.
In a separate State Department report, North Korea said the US was making “desperate efforts to ignite nuclear war,” accusing Washington of sending strategic resources to the region.
North and South Korea technically remain at war because their conflict between 1950 and 1953 ended in a ceasefire, not a treaty. REUTERS
