N. Korean song: No. 1 with a bullet

Paper says soldiers' singing will create 'mortal terror'

February 25, 2003

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) --Forget nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.

North Korea says it has something in its arsenal to fill the enemy with mortal terror -- the million-strong army and the rest of the country singing.

North Korea's Communist party newspaper urged the country's people Monday to redouble their courage and sing the song "Long Trip for Army-based Leadership" more loudly at a time of tension with the United States.

The daily newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said if North Korea was attacked, the country would resound to a song that had the power to fill "imperialists and enemies with mortal terror."

"It is the revolutionary song they should sing loudly in the confrontation," it said, according to the North's official KCNA news agency. "We should carry on the staunch struggle along the road of the army-based revolution, sonorously singing this song."

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