[iwar] [fc:N..Korea.Launches.Propaganda.Attack]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:N..Korea.Launches.Propaganda.Attack]
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N. Korea Launches Propaganda Attack
North Korea Launches Propaganda Counterattack, Says U.S. Pushed Relations to
Brink of War

The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea June 30 ‹ North Korea launched a blistering propaganda
counterattack Sunday, saying the United States had pushed relations to the
brink of war and that South Korea was guilty of "noisy, false propaganda"
over the sea battle in which four southern sailors were killed.

The belligerent North also refused as the "height of impudence" the South's
demand for an apology and again said the sea border along which the fight
took place was an illegal boundary imposed by the United States at the end
of the 1950-53 Korean War and should be redrawn.

The United States maintains 37,000 troops in the South to prevent a
resumption of fighting, which ended in an armistice but has never been made
official through a peace treaty.

The South Korean military said North Korea suffered about 30 casualties in
the fight Saturday, though independent confirmation was not possible.
Without elaborating, North Korea said it suffered losses.

The battle broke out Saturday morning after two North Korean patrol vessels
accompanying fishing boats crossed the sea border, South Korean officials
said. Seoul claimed one of the northern patrol boats opened fire after
ignoring warnings to retreat. North Korea, however, accused the South of
starting the fight by entering what it claimed was communist-controlled
water in the Yellow Sea.

The fighting was worst clash between the Koreas in three years. Besides the
four South Korean sailors who died, 19 among the 27-member crew were
injured. One sailor was missing after the patrol boat sank.

The sea border was calm Sunday, and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung was
in Japan to watch the World Cup soccer final and meet Japanese leaders. He
was expected to return to Seoul on Tuesday.

"The government will take necessary steps so the people can engage in their
business without concerns," said Kim, who has urged his military to be more
vigilant.

Within hours of the battle Saturday both Seoul and Washington charged the
North with violating the armistice.

North Korea has been lashing out at the United States since President Bush
last January lumped the country together with Iran and Iraq as "an axis of
evil."

"This is a declaration of a showdown of strength on the Korean peninsula and
an extremely dangerous attempt to drive North Korea-U.S. relations to the
brink of war," said Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling
Workers' Party.

A North Korean navy spokesman was quoted by the official KCNA news agency as
calling the South Korean version of the fight "a premeditated sheer
fabrication made to serve its sinister purpose of laying blame for the
incident at our door."

The sea border is "a bogus line unilaterally and illegally drawn by in the
1950s and our side, therefore, has never recognized it," KCNA quoted the
official as saying.

North Korea wants the border to be moved to the south, allowing Pyongyang
access to rich crab and fishing waters. South Korea's Yonhap news agency
reported the North delivered a letter Sunday to the U.S.-led U.N. Command
demanding the current sea border be abolished.

Navy Staff Sgt. Hwang Chan-kyu recounted the 21-minute battle Sunday in a
television interview from his hospital bed in Seoul.

"I could see the number '608' on the North Korean ship and thought the
distance was pretty close," he said.

"All of a sudden, I saw a glint of bright light from the enemy ship and a
moment later, our ship was ablaze," said Hwang, who suffered minor shrapnel
wounds and had a bandage around his head.

He said the South Koreans returned fire, and Ahn Gi-seok, a navy commodore
at the South Korean office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated there
were 30 North Korean casualties.

Hwang said North Korean shots hit his ship's steering room, fatally wounding
the commanding officer, Lt. Yoon Young-ha.

"Lt. Yoon was bleeding heavily from his back but was still alive, so I tried
artificial respiration on him but it wasn't helpful," Hwang said. "A few
feet away, I saw another colleague dying, and I pulled the trigger on my
machine gun like a madman."

Hwang said he also saw another sailor struggling to reload his automatic
rifle with only one hand after losing his left hand in enemy fire.

It was unclear how the clash might affect U.S. efforts to end a prolonged
suspension of security talks with North Korea. Washington has proposed talks
in the second week of July in North Korea.

The skirmish Saturday was a setback to President Kim's "sunshine" policy of
trying to engage the isolated North. Opposition lawmakers say the policy is
too lenient.

On Sunday, two North Korean warships and about 30 fishing boats appeared in
the disputed area but did not cross the border, South Korea said. South
Korean ferry services to the area resumed.

Also Sunday, 540 South Koreans left by ship on a sightseeing tour of scenic
Diamond Mountain on North Korea's east coast. The tourist program is a major
source of cash for the impoverished North.

In 1999, a series of border violations by North Korean ships touched off the
first naval clash between the two Koreas since the Korean War. One North
Korean warship sank and about 30 North Korean sailors died, according to
South Korea. Several South Korean sailors were wounded.

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