N. Korea warns Seoul not to participate in proliferation initiative

SEOUL, March 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Monday it will take stern measures if South Korea participates in U.S.-led multilateral efforts to interdict the North's transfer of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, calling it a "declaration of war."

"If the South takes part in multilateral operations, called the Proliferation
Security Initiative over our plan to launch a rocket, we will immediately take a
stern countermeasure," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of
the Fatherland said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News
Agency.
South Korea said recently that it would join the U.S.-led PSI if North Korea
proceeds with its planned rocket launch in early April. Pyongyang says it is
aiming to place a satellite in orbit, a claim Seoul and Washington dismiss as a
cover for a ballistic missile test.
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