North Korea said on Friday it would retaliate...

The statement comes a week after South Korea"s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported that analysts from South Korea, the United States and China were planning to meet in Beijing next month to discuss contingency plans in case of a potential collapse of the communist regime in Pyongyang.

"Those who seek to bring down the system in the (North), whether they play a main role or a passive role, will fall victim to the unprecedented nuclear strikes of the invincible army," the North"s official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman for the N. Korean military.

Such warnings have become a routine as the North skillfully plays its "nuclear card" in attempts to stall the talks over the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and to demand concessions from the international community.

In a previous statement on March 9, Pyongyang threatened to boost its nuclear capability in response to what it considered "continuing U.S. military threats and provocations," referring to

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