“Once Revolutionary forces’ Special Action is taken, all the rat parties [South Korea] and provokers [U.S. forces in South Korea] will be burned to the ground in three or four minutes….with our own unique methods, which haven’t been witnessed.”-North Korean TV announcement, translated by Reuters

April 23, 2012, an announcement by North Korea said that “special action” will be taken against South Korea.

While most Western media are reporting that North Korea isn’t being specific about what they mean, some are speculating that they could be talking about an attack on the U.S. puppet South Korea ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army on Wednesday.

I’ve read some of the North Korean propaganda articles on their Korean Central News Agency site, and while they have similar rhetoric, they do qualify their threats by adding “if provoked”.  This indicates that any “special attack” by North Korea would be in response to something South Korea, or the United States, does first.

However, some of the propaganda articles do also say they are going to make the U.S. puppet Lee Myung Bak, and his political party, pay for what they see as his sabotage of the unification talks between North and South Korea.