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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7761397" data-attributes="member: 92282">North Korea warned of military action against South Korea and the  United States on Monday, claiming the allied forces had brought "heavy  weapons" into the DMZ truce village of Panmunjom.       Reclusive North Korea, the focus of stalled six-party talks aimed  at halting its nuclear weapons programme, also said it had no choice  but to bolster its nuclear deterrent in the face of a hostile United  States.       The North, accused by the South and the United States of sinking  one of its naval vessels in March, has already raised tension to a new  height by threatening war if it is punished for the naval attack which  it says was fabricated by the South.       South Korean and U.S. forces remain in a tense standoff with the  North at Panmunjom that straddles the Demilitarised Zone after it was  established at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.       "U.S. forces introduced weapons (to the truce village) at around  7:25 a.m. on June 26," the North's official KCNA news agency said,  quoting its military, adding that the weapons must be withdrawn  immediately.       "If it does not comply with the principled demand of the Korean  People's Army, strong military counter-measures will be taken in the  area," the agency said.       North Korea's military, with 1.2 million troops, is one of the  largest in the world. The two sides are technically still at war as the  1950-53 conflict ended with a truce, not a peace treaty.       A U.S. military spokesman could not immediately comment on what  may have occurred in the truce village on Saturday that triggered the  North's comments.       On Sunday, the North rejected a call for a meeting of the  commission overseeing the truce and demanded direct military talks with  the South to discuss the sinking of the South Korean navy corvette in  which 46 sailors died.       A delegation from the U.S.-led U.N. Command is probing whether  North Korea violated the armistice by sinking the Cheonan, a probe the  North has denounced as a sham.       North Korea said, not for the first time, that it faced a U.S.  administration bent on imposing a nuclear threat and that it had no  choice but to bolster its own nuclear deterrent.       "Historical facts prove that the DPRK was quite right when it  made a decision to react to nukes with a nuclear deterrent," KCNA said,  referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's  Republic of Korea.       "The recent disturbing development on the Korean peninsula  underscores the need for the DPRK to bolster its nuclear deterrent in a  newly developed way to cope with the U.S. persistent hostile policy  towards the DPRK and military threat towards it."       U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday the world needs to  rally around South Korea in order to send North Korea a clear message  over the sinking of the corvette.<a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE65R10U20100628?sp=true" target="_blank">reuters</a></blockquote>

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