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NKorea says SKorean leader running risk of war AFP North Korea Monday renewed its attacks on South Korea's new President Lee Myung-Bak, accusing him of pushing the peninsula closer to nuclear war. The communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun poured scorn on his decision to link economic aid to the North's nuclear disarmament, and said he should order the United States to withdraw "its nuclear weapons massively stockpiled in South Korea." The United States, Seoul's long-time military ally, says it withdrew the last of its nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991. The paper in a commentary called on the US to end "its political and military threat to the DPRK's (North Korea's) security and sovereignty."
It said the Lee government's demand for Pyongyang to denuclearise as a precondition for better relations had caused a crisis in cross-border ties. "It is as clear as noonday that their persistent insistence on the above-said provocative assertion would only lead to a war on this land," the paper said.
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