SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 North Korea released a new propaganda video Saturday showing a nuclear strike on Washington and then threatened South Korea with a “merciless military strike” for slandering leader Kim Jong-Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pyongyang has been ramping up the bellicose rhetoric and propaganda for weeks, since the launch of annual South Korea-US war games that it views as provocative rehearsals for invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seoul and Washington made the already large-scale joint drills bigger than ever this year in response to the North’s nuclear test in January and long-range rocket launch a month later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Menacingly titled “Last Chance,” the video released on Saturday shows a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concludes with the US flag in flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The four-minute video romps through the history of US-Korean relations and ends with a digitally manipulated sequence showing a missile surging through clouds, swerving back to Earth and slamming down in front of Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US Capitol building explodes in the impact and a message flashes up on the screen in Korean: “If US imperialists budge an inch toward us, we will immediately hit them with nuclear (weapons).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n