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Feb 8, 2010

N.Korea claims strike force

SEOUL - NORTH Korea said on Monday it had a secret strike force to counter what it called South Korean plots to topple its regime. The communist North, which often claims that Seoul's conservative government is plotting against it, said such attempts have 'recently gone beyond the danger line'. A joint statement from the Ministry of People's Security and the Ministry of State Security cited Seoul's demand that Pyongyang scrap its nuclear weapons before any broader settlement of differences. The statement, carried by the North's official news agency, also criticised efforts by the South's military to defend the disputed Yellow Sea border and 'reckless' operations to destabilise the North. 'We have world-level ultra-modern striking force and means for protecting security which have neither yet been mentioned nor opened to the public in total,' it said without elaborating. -- AFP