SEOUL (Reuters)-New York under missile attack is a remote dream for North Korea's impoverished, yet that is precisely what the latest propaganda video from isolated State shows how to prepare a third nuclear test.
The video, posted on the website of semi-official Uriminzokkiri (http://www.uriminzokkiri.com/) and quickly becoming a viral Internet success, shows a United States city ablaze in scenes reminiscent of 9/11-part of a dream sequence in which a photographer around the Earth in a fictional North Korean space shuttle.
Rocket portrayed in crude animation, whose backing track is an instrumental version of "We Are the World", is labeled Unha-9, and the satellite shown is the Kwangmyongsong-21, as the young man's dreams of photographing the Earth from space.
"Black smoke is seen somewhere in America," says the video Korean text. "It seems that the nest of evil is on fire with the fire that started".
The video was removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim by Activision Games Inc., hence "Call of Duty" title pictures of burning city appeared to have been taken, but it was still accessible elsewhere on the Web.
So far, North Korea launched the rocket Unha-3 and is also on the third version of its satellite, which finally made it into space in December last year at the third attempt, triggering new United Nations sanctions.
The North is banned by the United Nations in the development of missiles and nuclear technology but says it has the sovereign right to a peaceful space program.
A North Korean space shuttle is beyond the wildest dreams of a country where the economy is smaller than 20 years ago and where about a third of children are malnourished.
Despite his bluster and threats to the United States, which the North labels a "hostile", Pyongyang is remotely capable of carrying a warhead of any kind capable of hitting an American city, although his rocket Unha-3 have a range of 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) that could reach the American continent.
North Korea has pulled plans to carry out a third nuclear test, which experts believe is imminent. You could use highly enriched uranium for the first time in an attempt to preserve his limited stock of plutonium used in tests in 2006 and 2009.
Washington has warned that a third test could trigger further sanctions against Pyongyang, but took a conservative line on the latest agitprop video from North Korea.
I've seen it, "State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told a press conference in Washington, referring to the video that was released this past weekend. "Clearly I'm not going to dignify and talk about it here."
North Korea remains technically at war with South Korea and the United States after the Korea war of 1950-53 ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
The propaganda machine of hyper-active threatened on several occasions to turn the South Korean capital Seoul into a "sea of fire" and has also labelled South Korean President Lee Myung-bak a "rat bastard" and staged fake kills him.
The latest video, which by Wednesday had been viewed more than 100,000 times on Live Leak, denouncing the "imperialist schemes to isolate and oppress us." (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=203_1360053143)
"They won't be able to stop our journey towards the final victory," it says.
(Additional reporting by Paul Eckert in WASHINGTON; Written by David Chance; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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