Seoul - North Korea threatened Wednesday to close its borders with South Korea starting December 1, accusing Seoul of pursuing a confrontational policy against its neighbour.

North Korea would "strictly restrict and cut off all the overland passages" at the inter-Korean border, said a statement distributed by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

London, Nov 12 : North Korea has said that it will shut all land borders with South Korea from the beginning of December, and accused its neighbour of provocation “beyond the danger level.”

The state-run Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang released a statement in English, which said the North Korean military was taking measures to “strictly restrict and cut off all the overland passages through the Military Demarcation Line.”

Seoul  - North Korea threatened Wednesday to close its borders with South Korea starting December 1 as it accused Seoul of pursuing a confrontational policy against its neighbour.

North Korea would "strictly restrict and cut off all the overland passages" at the inter-Korean border, said a statement distributed by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

South Korea's military was informed of the decision in a telephone message, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.

Tokyo, Nov. 11 : The North Korean Government has warned Japan that it could order its military forces to stop and board Japanese ships operating in the Sea of Japan or shadow military or civilian aircraft close to its territory if Tokyo steps up its sanctions against Pyongyang.

London, Nov. 7 : North Korean leader Kim jong Il’s recent spate of appearances is intended to remind the West, specifically America, that he is still in control of the nuclear-armed nation in spite of rumors that he had suffered a stroke in August.

“I think this is a message to the United States,” said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul’s University of North Korean Studies.

London, Nov 7: Three months after vanishing from public view, and after reports that North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-il had undergone brain surgery following a stroke, a new picture of the “Dear Leader” has come under scrutiny over concerns it may have been doctored to end speculation over his ailing health.

In the picture Kim’s shadow appears to be different to that of the soldiers alongside him in one picture, but in another lineup his shadow appears to fit with the surrounding soldiers, The Telegraph reported.