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S Korea urges North to halt hostility

AFP, Seoul
South Korea on Wednesday rejected North Korean demands for an apology over remarks by its top general, and told Pyongyang to stop raising tensions on the peninsula.
The defence ministry message was Seoul's first official reaction to a series of recent hostile moves and angry’ rhetoric by Pyongyang.
The ministry said in a statement that it sent a radio message to the North 's chief representative to interKorean military talks, Lieutenant-General Kim Yong-Choi.
Kim on Saturday had demanded an apology for remarks by South
Korea's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Kim Tae-Young. The North interpreted his comments as hinting at a preemptive military strike.
On Sunday the hardline communist state's official media repeated claims that Seoul was planning a preemptive attack and threatened to turn South Korea into ashes" in response.
On Tuesday official media launched a barrage of insults against new President Lee Myung-Bak. terming him a US sycophant, a traitor and a charlatan.
In the past week the North has also expelled South Korean officials from a joint industrial complex.
test-fired missiles and accused Seoul of breaching a disputed sea border.
The defence ministry message said the North misinterpreted the remarks.
"Our side has sincerely upheld the non-aggression agreement between the South and the North and this position will not change in the future," Seoul’s chief delegate to the military dialogue, Major-General Kwon Oh-Sung, said in the message to his counterpart.
"Your intentional slander and fostering of tension do not help ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, and we urge you u» immediatelvstop such activities."
The South is always ready to talk about peace and easing tensions, it added.
President Lee, a conservative who took office February 25, has angered the North by adopting a tougher line on relations after a decade-long "sunshine" engagement policy under liberal presidents.
He says he will link economic aid to the North's progress in nuclear disarmament and will raise its widely-criticised human rights policy.
The vitriolic criticism of Lee was the first since he took office. Local media said it was the first named attack on a Seoul president in eight years.