ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: North Korean students held a mass rally in support of its army and pledged to retaliate against the United States and its 'followers,' the state-run television KRT reported on Wednesday.<br/> <br />The network broadcast a video of the outdoor rally on Wednesday saying that thousands of North Korean students attended, but didn't specify when the rally was held.<br/> <br />The video showed thousands of students gathered in a square in Pyongsong, north of the capital Pyongyang, chanting slogans such as "let's kill!"<br/> <br />It also showed students marching down streets holding a banner reading: "If the United States attacks us, we will remove them from the earth."<br/> <br />Tensions have been escalating on the peninsula after Pyongyang was hit with U.S. sanctions for conducting a third nuclear test in February and the United States and South Korea staged military drills that North Korea viewed as "hostile."<br/> <br />Pyongyang then threatened a nuclear strike on
