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A South Korean soldier sits on the top of a K-55 155mm self-propelled howitzer at a drill field in the border city of Paju on March 12, 2013. North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un threatened to „wipe out” a South Korean island as Pyongyang came under new economic and diplomatic fire Tuesday from US sanctions and UN charges of gross rights abuses. REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT NO ARCHIVES NO INTERNET RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE AFP PHOTO/YONHAP