North Koreans staged rallies Wednesday to denounce South Korea's government as 'traitors', the official news agency reported, two days after a reported 100,000-strong protest in Pyongyang.Soldiers and civilians gathered in South Hwanghae and Kangwon provinces and in the border city of Kaesong 'to condemn the crimes of the Lee Myung Bak group of worst traitors', it said, referring to the South's president.
Speakers condemned what they called insults to the North's leaders and its army and system, and threatened a 'merciless retaliatory sacred war' if the Seoul government tries to ignite a new conflict.
The agency gave no numbers for those taking part in the protests.
On Monday it said more than 100,000 people packed a major square in Pyongyang to denounce 'crimes' by the South's conservative government.
Tensions between the two countries have been high for well over a year, since the South accused the North of torpedoing a warship in March 2010 and killing 46 sailors.