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8A – Daily News – Friday, December 24, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Koreas ramp up war rhetoric as tensions soar SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Kore- as ramped up their rhetoric Thursday, with South Korea’s president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a ‘‘sacred’’ nuclear war if provoked. South Korean troops, tanks and fighter jets put on a thundering display of force as President Lee Myung-bak visited with soldiers at a base near the border, while North Korea’s elite marked a key military anniversary by lashing out at the South for encouraging war. For both countries, the rallying cries and military maneuvers mainly seemed designed to build support at home. But they raised fears anew of all-out war on a peninsula that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richard- son called a ‘‘tinderbox’’ after returning from a visit to the North Korean capi- tal this week. 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That would be the biggest year-over- year increase since 2006, and the largest total since spending hit a record $452.8 billion in 2007. A strong finish could even give 2010 the crown. While both are heavy shopping days, Christmas Eve draws a different breed of buyer than Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. Blasts at embassies wound 2 ROME (AP) — Mail bombs exploded in the hands of employees at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome on Thursday, seriously wound- ing two people and trigger- ing heightened security checks at diplomatic mis- sions just as holiday deliver- ies deluge their mailrooms. Italian investigators sus- pected the attacks were the work of anarchists, similar to the two-day wave of mail bombs that targeted several embassies in Athens last month — including those of Chile and Switzerland. One of last month’s booby- trapped packages, addressed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, was intercepted in Italy. 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