TOKYO Oct 9 North Korea today threatened military action against South Korea if Seoul did not stop 'slandering the North by fabricating facts." reports AFP

"Unless the "civilian" warmaniac. who outdistances the military dictators, is removed, the nailcu can I”,idly avoid the scourge of war." North Korea's official Minju Joson journal said, according to the Korean centra! news agency (KCNA), in an apparent reference to South Korean President Kim Young-Sam.

Mliiju Joson said The Dictator of the Agency for National Security Planning of South Korea charged the North with extensive activities to infiltrate into he Scfuth. "

According to the journal South Korea has accused the North of digging innnels under the demilitarised zone separating the two countries.

Mini n Joson did not specify when and where South Korea-made the accusation.

"It is quile despicable for the bosses of the agency for National Security planning" and the puppet armed forces to compete with one another in slandering the North by fabricating faits Minjo. Joson said.

"it the nation is to be prevented from suffering the scourge o' war the Kim Young Sam group must be over thrown as soon as possible." it

Meanwhile." Rodong Sin-mun. the newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, was quoted by KCNA as saying Sunday that, the South Korean army was "nothing but a puppet armv which acts on orders of outside forces '

KCNA said in a dispatch monitored here that the United States and Roulh Korea

continued "provocative joint air war exercises" against Nor th Korea.

Quoting military sources it claimed some 490 fighter planes were thrown into the drills Thursday and Friday near the demilitarised zone.

"These war games for leading the situation oi the Korean peninsula to a higher tension were a very dangerous provocation," KCNA said

North Koria and the Uniteri States resumed highdeve! talks in Geneva on Wednesday focussing on Pyongyongs s pect nuclear programme. But no progress has been reporter) In the negotiations.