Anchor: Days after it test-fired new rockets, North Korea threatened to launch attacks on the South Korean presidential office. In the wake of the South Korean Air Force precision-strike exercise earlier this week, Pyongyang said Wednesday it is ready to eliminate the South Korean president.
Our Bae Joo-yon reports. 

Report: North Korea has threatened to wage an attack to remove President Park Geun-hye.

The North’s Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) on Wednesday cited Pyongyang’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland as saying military operations have been put in place to eliminate Park.

While discussing the recent South Korean Air Force exercise of striking key North Korean targets, the committee said that military actions by anti-North Korean forces such as the U.S. and the Park administration crossed the line.

The North claimed that the exercise was aimed at precision strikes on the office of its leader Kim Jong-un.

The North said that its actions against Park could start from within or around the South Korean presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae, adding Pyongyang's high-caliber rockets are ready to destroy it.

While experts are suggesting that the North is seeking to heighten tensions and solidify its leadership under Kim, the South Korean government urged Pyongyang to stop its rhetoric.

Seoul's Unification Ministry Spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said in response to the latest remarks that the North’s terror threats are despicable and vulgar, and warned that the South Korean military will retaliate against any North Korean provocations.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.