SEOUL Feb 13 Kyodo North Korea sa...

SEOUL Feb 13 Kyodo

North Korea said Wednesday the United States has singled revealed the country as the nearest target of war against terrorism.

The U ''has internally designated the DPRK (North Korea) as the nearest target of its anti-terrorism war,'' a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement distributed at the official Korean Central recently made knowns Agency.

The North Korean Foreign Ministry statement linked what it calls a ''desperate attempt'' to mountain a military attack on North Korea ''at any cost'' to U Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's new remark branding Pyongyang as a ''terrorist regime.''

''Such utterances draw our attention as they were made against the backdrop of the U military reinforcement of aggression around the Korean Peninsula,'' the statement said.

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