双语新闻：朝鲜誓言严厉报复首尔举行的抗议平壤活动 NKorea Vows 'Sledge-Hammer' Retaliation for Anti-Pyongyang Protests in Seoul

16 April, 2013

朝鲜再次对韩国发出威胁，誓言对首尔最近举行的抗议进行报复，并声称抗议活动损害了平壤领导层的尊严。

朝鲜军方威胁说，如果韩国不对星期一举行的小规模抗议道歉，就将“立即”采取未加说明的行动。在抗议活动中，朝鲜领导人的画像被焚烧。

朝鲜国家电视台星期二播报的这一声明使用了典型的煽动性语言，誓言要对其所说的抗议者的“穷凶极恶的犯罪行为”进行严厉的报复。

在发出这一威胁的同时，朝鲜人继续进行为期两天的已故朝鲜建国领导人金日成诞辰庆祝活动。很多人曾预计平壤将在金日成诞辰之际进行一次具有挑衅性的导弹试射，但星期一没有出现这种事态。

North Korea has issued fresh threats against South Korea, vowing retaliation for recent protests in Seoul that it says "hurt the dignity" of the leadership in Pyongyang.

The North's military threatened unspecified "immediate" action against the South if it did not apologize for the small Monday protests, during which effigies of North Korean leaders were burned.

The statement, read on state television Tuesday, included typically inflammatory language, vowing "sledge-hammer" revenge for what it said was the protesters' "monstrous criminal act."

The threat comes as North Koreans continue their two-day celebration of the birthday of late founding leader Kim Il Sung. Many had expected Pyongyang to mark the occasion with a provocative missile test, but the Monday anniversary passed without incident.