North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has said his communist country has no intention of invading the South, an official North Korean news report said Saturday. The North's media have often said a second Korean war would not be triggered by North Korean provocation but by an attack from the South. Nonetheless, it's highly unusual for them to attribute such a statement to Kim, said South Korea's official news agency, Yonhap, which monitors the North's media.
"Greater Leader Kim Jong Il has pointed out that in the South today, there is a fuss over the non-existing threat of invasion from the North. But in reality, the only existing threat of invasion is not from the North but from the South," said North Korea's state-run Pyongyang Radio. Pyongyang Radio relayed Kim's comment at the head of its commentary accusing the South of an arms buildup. Yonhap carried the excerpts of the commentary.
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