North Korea threatens to attack US

Seoul, Feb 4: North Korea Wednesday threatened to carry out nuclear and cyber warfare in retaliation for alleged aggression by the US, which it accused of toughening its hostile policy and planning to overthrow the Pyongyang regime. Pyongyang's National Defence Commission insisted that its powerful armed forces possessed smaller, more precise and diversified nuclear weapons to unleash a nightmare in the US in case of a conflict, according to a statement published by the state-controlled KCNA news agency. Pyongyang referred to the US government as a "gangster" and criticised President Barak Obama's recent prediction of the downfall of the North Korean government. About a month earlier, the US had announced additional sanctions against the communist nation and also the possibility of including it on a new blacklist of countries sponsoring terrorism.