United States, and said it would “wipe them out” with nuclear weapons if they threatened it,

its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.South Korean and U.S. forces start computer simulation

and communication exercises on Monday. They come in the wake of rare conciliatory moves by

Pyongyang, which this month released two jailed U.S. journalists and a detained South Korean

worker.On Sunday, KCNA said reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had met the leader of

the South’s powerful Hyundai Group, a major investor in the North — a move that may comfort

investors worried about increased tensions.North Korea regularly denounces joint exercises

as a preparation for invasion and nuclear war.”Should the U.S.
imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group threaten the DPRK (North Korea) with nukes, it will

retaliate against them with nukes,” KCNA quoted a military official as saying. Lee Myung-bak

is South Korea’s president.Impoverished North Korea has been angered by Lee’s

South Korea and the United States, and said it would “wipe them out” with nuclear weapons if

they threatened it, its KCNA news agency said on Sunday.South Korean and U.S. forces start

computer simulation and communication exercises on Monday. They come in the wake of rare

conciliatory moves by Pyongyang, which this month released two jailed U.S. journalists and a

detained South Korean worker.On Sunday, KCNA said reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il

had met the leader of the South’s powerful Hyundai Group, a major investor in the North — a

move that may comfort investors worried about increased tensions.North Korea regularly

denounces joint exercises as a preparation for invasion and nuclear war.”Should the U.S.

imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group threaten the DPRK (North Korea) with nukes, it will

retaliate against them with nukes,” KCNA quoted a military official as saying. Lee Myung-bak

is South Korea’s president.