North Korea Demands Apology from US; Threatens Attack on South 'Without Notice'

North Korea has demanded that the United States apologize for using the "nuclear stick," and threatened that it would not hesitate to take military action on South Korea "immediately and without notice."

North Korea said it would be willing to hold talks with the South only if the United States apologized for new U.N. sanctions that were imposed in response to a nuclear weapon test by Pyongyang in February.

"If the puppet authorities truly want dialogue and negotiations, they should apologize for all anti-DPRK hostile acts, big and small, and show the compatriots their will to stop all these acts in practice," North's state news agency KCNA said Tuesday, as North Korea marked the second day of festivities in honor of the April 15 birthday of its first leader, Kim Il Sung.

This was apparently in response to Washington's offer of talks on the pre-condition that the North abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions. The statement added that the North is not against dialogue but did not want to sit at the "humiliating negotiating table with the party brandishing a nuclear stick." Read more

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