N. Korea calls for S. Koreans to join “patriotic struggle to check and foil the U.S. imperialists.”

Following North Korea’s post-hoc support for the slashing of U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert, my two main questions where (1) whether the North had a role in inciting the attack (for which I’ve seen no direct evidence thus far); and (2) whether the North is calling for more violent anti-American attacks.

KCNA’s latest helps us answer the latter question in the affirmative. It isn’t specific about its favored methods of “patriotic struggle,” although its recent approval of the slashing of diplomats should give you a fairly good idea.

Full text below the fold.

Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) — It was entirely just that the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in a recent statement called upon all Koreans and the world peace-loving people to turn out in the struggle to resolutely check and foil the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group’s nuclear war drills for invading the north, says Rodong Sinmun Friday in an article.
It goes on:
The grave situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula is attributable to the U.S. heinous moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and saber-rattling.
This being a hard reality, the south Korean puppet forces are frantically escalating the confrontation with the compatriots in the north, backed by the U.S.
It is needless to say that a nuclear war will break out on the peninsula if the Koreans remain a passive onlooker to the U.S. and puppet warmonger’s criminal war moves getting evermore dangerous.
It is impossible to defend the security of the nation and improve the inter-Korean relations as long as outside forces and pro-U.S. sycophants and lackeys are allowed to persist in their moves to ignite a war against the north. This is the lesson taught by the present situation.
The inter-Korean relations cannot become a scapegoat of the U.S. imperialist aggressors and their stooges’ moves to stifle the DPRK.
Painful national division and history of the north-south stand-off should never be allowed to go on.
All Koreans in the north, the south and abroad should turn out as one in the nation-wide patriotic struggle to check and foil the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet group’s saber-rattling leading the inter-Korean relations to a catastrophe. -0-