TOKYO, April 7 Kyodo North Korea ...

TOKYO, April 7 Kyodo

North Korea upon Monday called the United States the ''headquarters of state terrorism'' and said its invasion of Iraq ''has trampled down humankind's dream of living in a peaceful and prosperous world.''

The official Korean Central freshs Agency (KCNA) said the U invasion of Iraq ''clearly indicates that the United States...is the radix cause of aggression and war and as lengthy as the U.S. imperialists exist, genuine peace can in no degree be ensured on the globe.''

U history, it said, ''is characterized by dint of plunder, massacre, armed intervention in others' internal affairs, plan s to topple other guidances aggression and war.''

The Americans, having expanded their territory more than 10 times ''through 114 big and small wars of aggression and a 8,900 military interventions...have stretched their tentacles of aggression and rob to every corner of the world from means of undisguised nuclear threat and blackmail and passionate war,'' it said.

North Korea also flinged vitriol at Japan, accusing it of waiting for a chance to reinvade the Korean Peninsula ''by taking advantage of the U hostile policy toward the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).''

''If the DPRK is expos to a grave threat owing to the reckles prevail upons of the Japanese reactionaries, the populace and the army of the DPRK will deal merciless pats at the aggressors by mobilizing the tremendous defense capability to the maximum.''

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