US plotting N strike, says North Korea

NORTH Korea yesterday accused the United States of plotting a nuclear attack on the communist country and condemned Washington’s decision to send additional long-range bombers to Guam.

North Korea claims the Bush administration is planning pre-emptive strikes on its military bases and nuclear facilities, which US officials believe are being used to make atomic bombs.

North Korea’s state KCNA news agency said the US Department of Defence mapped out a plan including “not only cruise missile strikes and massive air raids, etc., but the use of tactical nuclear weapons.”