North Korea warns South Korea of ‘painful retaliation’

Seoul: Pyongyang late last Friday threatened to take “regretful and painful” retaliation soon against Seoul as their mutual trust is “shattered” by the latter’s failure to stop anti-Pyongyang leaflets from being sent into the North.

Pyongyang dismissed Seoul’s promise to stop “defectors” from sending balloons carrying leaflets as “lip service”, Jang Kum Chol, director of the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.