North Korea said today it would attack South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda facilities along its border, warning it could even turn Seoul into a “sea of flame”.

South Korea hit back over its torpedoed warship today by suspending trade with North Korea in a move aimed at crippling the regime financially.

South Korea’s president said his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea’s “brutality” and said the regime would pay for a surprise torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said today that North Korea should face international consequences over the sinking of a South Korean warship.

South Korea’s president bemoaned the “precious deaths” of dozens of sailors killed when an explosion destroyed their warship, as suspicion increasingly fell on a North Korean torpedo blast in the disaster.

AN explosion from a torpedo likely sank a South Korean warship that went down near the tense border with North Korea last month, the South’s defence minister said yesterday amid growing speculation Pyongyang may be behind the blast.

A torpedo was the likely cause of an explosion that sank a warship near the tense border with North Korea last month, a South Korean minister said today.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak vowed today that his country would respond “resolutely and unwaveringly” against those behind the sinking of a naval ship near the tense maritime border with North Korea.

South Korea’s military has ended its underwater search for dozens of sailors missing from a navy ship that sank following a mysterious blast eight days ago, an official said today.

South Korea's president ordered the military on alert today after the defence minister said the explosion and sinking of a ship may have been caused by a North Korean mine.

A NORTH Korean mine may have caused the explosion that sank a South Korean naval ship near a disputed maritime border, the defence minister told lawmakers yesterday.

South Korea today accused its Northern neighbour of deliberately setting a mine which sank a warship last week.

North Korea threatened South Korea with possible punishment today over a skirmish that left one of its warships badly damaged and a crew member dead.

South Korea’s troops went on high alert today for possible retaliation by North Korea after one of its navy ships was nearly destroyed and an officer reportedly killed in a skirmish with the South, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

NORTH KOREA threatened South Korea with destruction yesterday after Seoul’s top military officer said he would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a nuclear attack.

North Korea’s official news agency warned today that the country’s military will not “sit idle” until “warmongers” launch a pre-emptive strike.

A suspected arson attack left South Korea's greatest landmark in ruins today, destroying the centuries-old wooden structure atop the Namdaemun gate that was deemed the country's top national treasure.

Ballack’s moment of despair came on 71 minutes when he was cautioned for a foul outside the area on Lee.

Michael Ballack put aside his disappointment at being suspended for the World Cup Final by scoring the goal which took Germany there.

At the start, they just wanted to record their first World Cup win. Then they wanted to reach the last 16. Once they had done that, they enviously eyed a place in the quarter-finals.

Fifa has admitted "one or two major mistakes" have been made by referees during the World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

South Korea coach Guus Hiddink has aimed a dig at Spain ahead of their World Cup quarter-final showdown, claiming they were lucky to beat Ireland.

SOUTH KOREA hero Ahn Jung-Hwan, who scored the golden goal to knock Italy out of the World Cup, has been axed by his Italian club Perugia, according to the team’s president.