SEOUL - NORTH Korea on Tuesday threatened to turn South Korea into 'debris' unless Seoul stops what it described as a policy of confrontation.

'The puppet authorities had better bear in mind that the advanced preemptive strike of our own style will reduce everything ... to debris, not just setting them on fire,' the North's military said in a statement.

'It will turn out to be a just war... to build an independent reunified state on it,' it added. -- AFP