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SEOUL, South Korea (March 2) - North Korea warned Sunday of "nuclear
disasters'' around the world if Washington attacks the communist state, while
its civilian leaders urged greater cooperation between Pyongyang and Seoul to
ease the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

The North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper accused the Central Intelligence
Agency of preparing a surprise attack on the nation's nuclear facilities that
are suspected of being used to make atomic bombs.

"If the U.S. imperialists ignite a war on the Korean Peninsula, the war will
turn into a nuclear war,'' Rodong said. "As a consequence, the Koreans in the
north and south and the people in Asia and the rest of the world will suffer
horrifying nuclear disasters.''

The report, carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency, claimed that
Washington put its forces around the peninsula on "semi-war footing'' and "is
pushing ahead with nuclear war preparations in full swing.''

Pyongyang accuses Washington of inciting the nuclear standoff as a pretext
for an invasion. Washington has repeatedly said it has no plans to attack
North Korea, but stresses that "all options are on the table.''

In Seoul on Sunday, North Korea's religious and civic leaders took part in
inter-Korean religious masses and urged greater cooperation between the two
Koreas.

"Preventing war through national cooperation is the most urgent task of the
nation,'' said Ri Mun Hwan, a senior North Korean delegate. "If war breaks
out, the South cannot be safe and the entire nation will face disaster.''

Another delegate, Oh Kyung Woo, said the "United States is threatening a
nuclear war, but if war breaks out both South and North will incur damages,''
according to South Korea's national Yonhap news agency.

"Foreign forces will never give us reunification. We must cooperate with each
other,'' Oh was quoted as saying.

The comments were made during religious masses at a cathedral, a church, a
Buddhist temple and other religious locations, which were attended by
thousands of South Koreans.

The ceremonies were a part of an inter-Korean festival to mark the
anniversary of a major independence uprising against Japanese colonial rule
on March 1, 1919.

Pyongyang sent 105 delegates to Seoul on Saturday for the three-day festival.
Both Koreas mark the uprising as a major holiday. Japan ruled the peninsula
from 1910 to 1945.

Rodong, monitored by South Korea's national Yonhap news agency, reiterated
that the North's nuclear activities were "strictly for peaceful purposes and
poses no threat to anyone.''

"Crushing the U.S. plot to attack North Korea is a very important issue
related to peace and safety of Asia and the world, the existence and future
of mankind,'' Rodong said.

Raising tensions last week, North Korea test-fired a missile into the sea off
its east coast. Pyongyang also reactivated a 5-megawatt reactor that could
produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, U.S. and South Korean officials said.

On Saturday, North Korea said nuclear war could break out on the peninsula at
"any moment,'' after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun warned of a
"calamity'' unless the standoff is resolved peacefully and quickly.

The dispute flared in October when Washington said North Korea had admitted
pursuing a nuclear program, which violated a 1994 pact.

Washington and its allies cut off oil shipments to the impoverished communist
state. The North responded by saying it would reactivate its frozen
facilities. It also expelled U.N. monitors and withdrew from the global
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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