South Korea's Navy On Alert After North Issues Warning Of Conflict

February 1, 2009 11:51 a.m. EST

Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - North Korea issued another warning on Sunday, threatening South Korea of a possible military conflict as the former try to restructure its foreign policies against South Korea amid mounting tension in the Korean Peninsula.

The reports on Sunday said the South Korean Defense Ministry officials have indicated that the country's navy will remain on high alert along the western sea border.

The Communist country warned that it will abandon all the peace agreements with its southern neighbor, adding that he is confident that it's army has grown to be "invincible"

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) claimed that the South Korean government has been responsible for worsening ties between the two nations.

South Korean president had pledged to reduce tensions by resuming food aid after the talks between the two sides, which accepted truce after 1950-1953 conflict but have not agreed on a peace treaty.

But with Friday's warning by the North, the political analysts fear that the tension may lead to inevitable military conflict and a war.

"The KPA (Korean People's Army)... has grown to be the invincible revolutionary ranks all members of which devotedly defend the Party and the leader" the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim Jong-Il as saying, without giving a date for the visit, according to AFP.

The state media has blamed the South Korea's president for trying to avoid his personal responsibility for the two sides' strained relations by reviving previous bilateral summit accords.

The two countries have been engaged in dismantling North Korea's nuclear program, a measure that will enter its final phase in order to get rid the communist country of nuclear weapons.

Last year, North Korea was seeking economic and diplomatic concessions in return for a complete dismantle of its nuclear operations including uranium enrichment in the country.

But last month, North Korea said that it may retain its nuclear capability and threatened to "shatter" the conservative South Korean government in Seoul.

The news emerged after a U.S. researcher indicated that Pyongyang has "weaponized" plutonium stocks, enough to produce four or five nuclear bombs.

Selig Harrison, director of the Washington-based Center for International Policy's Asia program, had said that the weapons cannot be tested or inspected as North Korea will not commit itself now to give up any information.

North Korea has indicated that it will keep the nuclear weapons as long as it's threatened by the U.S. and the southern neighbor.