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		</div><p>North Korea has made more threats against its enemies, vowing to take unspecified &#8220;powerful&#8221; measures over a US plan to deploy an advanced missile defence system in South Korea.</p>
<p>A statement issued by the North Korean military was filled with the belligerent, over-the-top rhetoric common when Pyongyang sees an external threat.</p>
<p>However, a direct military attack from Pyongyang&#8217;s large but impoverished military, which would probably finish the country&#8217;s authoritarian leadership after US and South Korean retaliation, is highly unlikely.</p>
<p>North Korea favours covert, surprise attacks such as the 2010 shelling of a South Korean island in which four people were killed, and Seoul has accused it of carrying out a spate of cyberattacks.</p>
<p>The North&#8217;s most recent threat, carried in state media, came three days after Seoul and Washington said they were close to determining a location in South Korea for the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) system to better deal with North Korean threats.</p>
<p>The North said it will take an unspecified &#8220;physical counter-action&#8221; as soon as the Thaad location is announced.</p>
<p>The statement also carried one of the North&#8217;s favourite, oft-repeated threats: to turn Seoul into a &#8220;sea of fire&#8221;.</p>
<p>It has been regularly warning it will do that since 1994.</p>
<p>US and South Korean officials say Thaad only targets North Korea, but China and Russia suspect it could also help US radars detect their own missiles.</p>
<p>South Korea&#8217;s President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that she agreed to the US missile deployment because North Korea has openly threatened to launch nuclear and missile attacks on South Korea.</p>
<p>The two Koreas have been divided along the world&#8217;s most heavily fortified border since the 1950-53 Korean War. The United States stations about 28,500 soldiers in South Korea.</p>
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