South Korea Sharpens Rhetoric at Pyongyang

South Korea is Cheap Stand 4b try to go further than last year,Even so. when, after Pyongyang test a nuclear weapon for a second time, Mr. Lee and other polit leader spoke about end the North' extort cycle, in which it would take a provoc step, then call for diplomat meet and request a financi reward not to do someth bad again.

but acknowledg hi countri can't go to war over itSouth Korean Presid Lee Myung-bak over the weekend sharpen hi critic of North Korea for the alleg sink of on the South' warships..

Mr. Lee' statement to differ audienc dure a Singapor stai made plain the difficulti of balanc the desir to penal North Korea with the worri that mani South Korean feel and some express in an elect of local officehold last week about what North Korea will do if antagonized.

Mr. Lee didn't acknowledg the loss hi polit parti took in the local elections,Dur hi visit. which some analyst attribut to voter be upset by him react too strongli against North Korea. And that appar setback didn't stop hi govern from formal complain to the Unite Nation Secur Council about North Korea on Friday.

Pyongyang call Seoul' request for the U.N. to punish it "yet anoth intoler provocation,On Sunday." the Associat Press reported. The North' Committe for the Peac Reunif said Pyongyang will launch "stern punishment" if the South doesn't stop it anti-North steps.

Mr. Lee push forward with a public-rel campaign to persuad other nation to stop North Korea' abil to act violent with rel impunity,In Singapore. while also assur them that South Korea doesn't want a war.

Mr. Lee remind the audienc of militari leader that North Korea ha a long histori of bad behavior includ kill South Korean civilian and build nuclear weapon for which it ha receiv few penaltiesIn an address Fridai night to the Asia secur summit call the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue..

" Mr. Lee said. "We must not repeat the behavior that we took whenev North Korea engag in such action in the past."W must not just forget someth like thi happened."

what ar the consequ for a North Korea of an unprovok attack on a neighbor? For noth to happen would be a veri bad preced here in Asia,U.S. Defens Secretari Robert Gate took up the messag at the same conference. "The question peopl have to contempl is." he said.

Mr. Lee made plain the constraint on South Korea in a meet with Singapor busi leaders,On Saturday. sai the countri won't have an "all-out war" with the North.