North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has hailed his troops as ”invincible” during a military inspection, official media announced on Sunday amid a war of words and growing tensions with South Korea. Pyongyang in recent days has threatened to reduce the South to ”ashes” and called its new conservative president, Lee Myung-Bak, a traitor.
North Korea announced on Thursday it was suspending all dialogue with South Korea after failing to win an apology for remarks by a Seoul general, its toughest action in a week of growing cross-border tensions. The communist state’s Korean Central News Agency blamed Seoul for the North’s decision to suspend dialogue and contacts.