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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/n-korea-lambasts-retaliation-pledge.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korean military veterans burn a North Korean flag and portrait of Kim Il Sung, the late founder of North Korea. (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-n-korea-lambasts-retaliation-pledge.jpg" alt="South Korean military veterans burn a North Korean flag and portrait of Kim Il Sung, the late founder of North Korea. (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>North Korea has lambasted South Korea&#8217;s new defence chief for threatening to launch air strikes against the North and accused the South of causing &#8220;uncontrollable, extreme&#8221; tension on the peninsula.</p>
<p>The South&#8217;s Defence Minister Kim Kwan-jin told a confirmation hearing on Friday that jets would bomb the North if it stages another attack like the shelling on a front-line island that killed four South Koreans.</p>
<p>Mr Kim took office on Saturday, replacing a predecessor who resigned amid criticism that South Korea&#8217;s response to the November 23 shelling was too slow and weak.</p>
<p>The North&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency issued a statement on Sunday accusing the South of staging a series of &#8220;frantic provocations&#8221; including the defence minister&#8217;s remarks.</p>
<p>&#8220;The frantic provocations &#8230; are rapidly driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an uncontrollable extreme phase,&#8221; the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch from Pyongyang.</p>
<p>The dispatch said South Korea plans to stage new naval drills with the United States soon, start its own live-fire drills from Monday and deploy missiles, rockets and other sophisticated weapons to Yeonpyeong Island that was hit by a North Korean artillery barrage.</p>
<p>&#8220;The puppet military warlike forces were reported to have already worked out the so-called &#8216;retaliatory plan&#8217; which calls for sparking off an armed clash after getting on the nerves of the (North Korean) military and taking a large-scale counteraction under this pretext,&#8221; it said.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s military declined on Sunday to confirm whether it has such a military retaliation. Joint Chiefs of Staff officers only said a new joint drill with the US &#8211; which would follow last&#8217;s week&#8217;s massive joint naval drill at Yellow Sea &#8211; is still under discussion with Washington and the live-fire exercise is a routine drill that has been scheduled well before the artillery barrage.</p>
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