Pyongyang launches rhetorical offensive

Associated press tourists used telescopes to view North Korean territory on Tuesday by the Observatory in the northeastern South Korea unification in Tumb.

SEOUL - Korea official State media, ever a source of warlike articles and anachronistic cold war-style rhetoric, went into overdrive Tuesday to sell his version of the recent fire fight, the four South Koreans killed.

North Korea's largest newspaper, grubbing-up Shinmun, wrote that the November 23 attack by Yeonpyeong Iceland "Provocation" was to North Korea - a reflection of the recent international allegations North had provoked the South in establishing the deadly artillery, keeping remote vision on the island.

"The South Korean public opinion assert have misled authorities, the recent case of Yonphyong Island fire due to the DPRK occurred", said the newspaper that use Northern spelling of the island and acronym for the country's formal name.

The article also Tuesday was conducted by the Korea Central News Agency, distributed that North Korea's official news international. It was under three articles Tuesday on KCNA, the North with direct criticism about the attack other headlines, including "DPRK will never pardon defamation would be anyone who and system" bored and "S. Korean Minister of unification's reckless information flayed."

Four more article general criticism of South Korea, the United States and Japan, countries that North Korea's authoritarian regime long so ready that penetrate has represented North at any moment performed KCNA Tuesday. Others provide statements of what the North were said its international allies, such as a report of the Group Malta statement "us and S. Korean puppet forces' Invading DPRK slammed moves."

Tuesday's articles are part of a public relations effort, that far more than the concerted Pyongyang in its conflict with Seoul this year appears mounted on the setting's South patrol ship Cheonan, died in the 46 sailors from the South.

Reuters A population of Yeonpyong Iceland is 23 attack on a destroyed House a day after North Korea November.

North Korea refer first international news report on the March 26 incident appeared more three weeks after that. A torpedo that sinking ship and punished by Seoul issued 20 other articles about the decline in the next two months a period in which it was formally accused of firing State media.

In contrast to North Korean State media his first statement about the Yeonpyeong attack issued less than three hours after it happened. Hardly a day gone since of if it has issued at least a further report on not.

It has given analysts to sort another problem, as you try to study the reasons for the attack. North Korea has repeatedly attack call used - and on at least one occasion claim almost - a new sea border off the West coast of the two Koreas.

But it has this argument for years and it is unclear why Pyongyang has transformed now so aggressively on the border issue. North Korea analysts have recently posits that North of Kim Jong Il is driven desire to smooth a sequence, for his son and Seoul in the provision of economic aid with a few questions asked pressure as it before 2008.

South Korea's Government does not respond as a policy to specific instructions from the North. But on the river of articles in General, a South Korea's unification Ministry of education, the North Korean Affairs spokeswoman: "Under the hard and extreme language, we must find true messages that ship in the North is."

Occasionally, expressions officials fatigue with the North stormy means of expression. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on several occasions in the past two years urged North Korea to talk more directly. And a subtext in calls to Washington and Seoul for Pyongyang "denuclearization seriously" diplomats say, is a wish of the United States and in South Korea for North Korea to cool his rhetoric.

The hyperventilating sound does not mean that the news must be rejected unless says Brian Myers, Professor at Dongseo University in Busan, who explored mainly messages internally provides the North Korean Government instead of the outside world.

"What you want us to know is interesting information," he said.

North Korea's internal and external messages provide the same general message: the country is under siege from the United States, South Korea and Japan.

But sometimes differ in the details. For example, North Korea's subscription was presented Treaty on the non-proliferation and its subsequent withdrawal from it, in the country's internal media, including newspapers and books as a crafty exploitation of the contract for their own purposes.

"This never would be said in external propaganda to show trying the North a besieged, unsafe country that feels threatened by warmongers in Washington and Seoul", said Mr Myers.

Internally, he said North Korea portrays itself as "An invincible military power, an object of terror to a craven U.S. and South Korea, a country that plays by his own rules."

One of the stories, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to statements conveys sharply criticized by KCNA on Tuesday he to reporters during a trip to Indonesia and Malaysia last week made. Mr. Lee said South Korea has a responsibility to ensure that people enjoy fundamental rights North Korea and South Koreans prepare for a reunion with the North, although he no timetable set.

The KCNA report account said Mr. Lee "did not hesitate to let, lose a string of offensive comments like"it's irresistible"and ' Association is close, drawing ' while cheeky ballyhooing about 'Fundamental right' and ' right to happiness." "

-Jaeyeon Woo contributed to this article.

Write toEvan Ramstad at evan.ramstad@wsj.com

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