U.S., S. Korean Puppet Forces to Be Held Accountable for All Ensuing Catastrophic Consequences: CPRK Spokesman

    Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued the following statement on Monday:
    The U.S. and south Korean puppet warmongers finally kicked off Key Resolve joint war maneuvers, the provocative saber-rattling for invading the DPRK, despite its repeated warnings and strong denunciation at home and abroad.
    The madcap joint war maneuvers under way in the sky, ground and seas of south Korea in parallel with Foal Eagle joint war exercises which started on March 1 are participated in by U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, south Korean puppet troops, armed forces of satellite countries including the UK and Australia, U.S. nuclear carrier group, B-52 strategic bombers, F-22 Stealth fighters, Aegis destroyers and other ground, air and naval strike means equipped with nukes and live shells.
    Timed to coincide with the large-scale north-targeted war exercises, the puppet authorities and military gangsters are openly letting loose a spate of provocative outbursts calling for "striking commanding forces and strongholds" and "bringing down the north's regime".
    Such three-dimensional joint war exercises are the most dangerous drills for a nuclear war and most undisguised provocations unprecedented in their nature, scale and the program of their drills.
    The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are, however, describing the war maneuvers as "annual defensive ones" to cope with the "north's provocation" and "threat".
    Do they have any reason for raising a hue and cry over someone's "threat" and "provocation" while posing a real threat and committing provocations?
    It is the height of shamelessness for the U.S. and its stooges, military gangsters to paint the war exercises for aggression as "annual defensive ones" while staging them after keeping huge nuclear war hardware close to the DPRK's gate for decades.
    How can the largest-ever nuclear war maneuvers aimed to mount a preemptive strike at the headquarters of the other party and its strategic bases and "bring down the regime" be "defensive ones"?
    The Key Resolve joint military exercises for aggression are a clear declaration of war against the DPRK.
    We had already clarified that the Korean Armistice Agreement would be completely ified, all agreements on the north-south non-aggression be totally scrapped and second and third strong practical countermeasures be taken in succession from March 11 when the nuclear war maneuvers of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces to invade the DPRK enter a full-dress stage.
    They have challenged the DPRK's ultimatum with their reckless saber-rattling, totally abrogating the AA and agreements on non-aggression, the minimum mechanisms for deterring a war. The complete collapse of this mechanism for averting a war has caused the situation on the peninsula to lead to the outbreak of a war, unhindered. This grave situation clearly proves that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces have escalated the tension on the peninsula, deliberately taking issue with the DPRK's legitimate satellite launch for peaceful purposes and its nuclear test, a just measure for self-defence, for the purpose of provoking a war of aggression against the DPRK. It, at the same time, clearly indicates that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are chieftains of a war and arch disturbers of peace on the peninsula.
    The DPRK's option has become clearer as they kicked off the above-said drills for aggression against it.
    It is the invariable stand and will of the army and people of the DPRK to counter enemies coming in attack with a dagger with a sword, a rifle with an artillery piece and nukes with precision nuclear strike means of Korean style more powerful than them.
    The hearts of our service persons and people are burning with the will to annihilate the enemies and all of them are now seeking a way to give vent to their pent-up grudge against them.
    All service personnel and people of the DPRK and all its offensive means including sophisticated nuclear strike means are in place for a final offensive for national reunification as it had already declared.
    All strike means of the DPRK have already been put on alert and when they open fire, everything will turn into a sea in flames.
    The service personnel and people of the DPRK have turned out as one in an all-out action. If the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppet forces dare fire even a shell on the inviolable territory, seas and air of the DPRK, its army and people will not miss the golden chance but blow up the strongholds of invasion through merciless strikes and achieve the national reunification, the long-cherished desire of the nation.
    Intolerable is the lawless society under the reign of the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices.
    The DPRK will sternly punish all unjust provocateurs and aggressors with arms for justice.
    The U.S. and south Korean puppet forces are wholly to blame for all the ensuing catastrophic consequences from this moment. 

CPRK Spokesman Slams S. Korean Military for Making Rhetoric Hurting Social System and Dignity of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) gave the following answer to the question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the hideous provocation committed by the south Korean puppet military hooligans hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK:
    The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to the brink of a war due to the fabrication of the UN Security Council's "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK at the instigation of such hostile forces as the U.S. and its allies, and the DPRK-targeted nuclear war rehearsals being conducted by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces.
    The army and people of the DPRK are hardening their will to resolutely foil the anti-DPRK acts on the part of the hostile forces including the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group and their moves for provoking a nuclear war, and annihilate them and safeguard the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and the supreme interests of the country.
    Under such situation, the puppet military group of south Korea went reckless calling for "striking commanding forces" on March 6. Two days later it let a spokesman for the puppet Defence Ministry make rhetoric over the toughest counter-measures taken by the DPRK for self-defence. He even made such outbursts as "elimination of the north's regime from the earth" and "resolute punishment" in reference to the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.
    Kim Pyong Gwan, puppet Defense Minister hopeful, also openly blustered at a "parliamentary confirmation hearing" that the south would react to the DPRK's crucial measures with "north's regime change or toppling of the regime".
    This is a hideous provocation against the dignity of the supreme leadership, social system and the army and people of the DPRK and an open declaration of a war signifying that the puppet group would not rule out a war.
    The puppet group is making bluffing, not judging what catastrophic consequences its senseless rhetoric will entail, taken aback by the strong spirit of the army and people of the DPRK to annihilate the enemies.
    The situation clearly proves who is an arch criminal making provocation and escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula.
    The DPRK already made it clear that it will never pardon those who provoke the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, its life and soul, even a bit and make strong reaction to them, considering the provocation as a declaration of war against the DPRK.
    Kim Pyong Gwan and other military hooligans of south Korea who made free roll of tongues should know that they can not live under the sky for their recent vituperation only.
    There are many precedents in history that a word led to a war.
    The fuse of a war is burning faster now due to the rhetoric made by Kim Pyong Gwan and other hooligans.
    The south Korean group of traitors seems to count on the U.S. but it should clearly know that its master will not be able to protect the stooge.
    The tragic ends of the successive pro-U.S. stooges and the miserable fate of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors who becomes almost dead for its act of hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK clearly prove this.
    Those who provoke the social system and dignity of the DPRK can not evade merciless punishment.
    The puppet warmongers should immediately apologize for their recent outbursts. They should also clearly know that they will become the first target in the great war for national reunification, should they continue to come out in a provocative way. 

Kim Jong Un Guides Live Shell Firing Drill of Artillery Sub-Units

    Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, guided a live shell firing drill to examine the real war fighting capabilities of artillery sub-units in the hotspots whose mission is to strike Taeyonphyong and Paekryong Islands.
    He received a report on the live shell firing program and the deployment of artillery sub-units before issuing an order for live shell firing.
    Shells intensively hit the imaginary targets of the enemy while the roar of the artillery pieces rocked heaven and earth.
    Whenever artillerymen hit the targets, he was greatly satisfied to watch them.
    Watching through field glasses the artillery pieces of the islet defence detachments deployed in the biggest hotspots in the southwestern sector of the front hitting the targets in succession, he said the Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defence Detachment are the best and the hero artillery pieces of the Mu Islet Defence Detachment are matchless, indeed.
    The artillerymen of the Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defend Detachment got the highest appraisal from the Supreme Commander for their success in the drill.
    The artillerymen could hit the targets as they have undergone highly intense trainings while thinking of the day to fight, he said.
    He recalled that he specified the order of precision strike and density of fire on targets while inspecting forefront posts in the southwestern sector and western sector of the front, adding that through the live shell firing drill the artillerymen of the Fourth Army Corps proved themselves that they are ready to throw the enemies on Taeyonphyong and Paekryong Islands into flames.
    As I always stressed, a modern war is an artillery war and preparations for an artillery battle mean the preparations of the KPA and they are an important factor of deciding a victory in the great war for national reunification, he said, setting forth tasks arising in further bolstering up the artillery.
    He invited to Pyongyang the artillerymen of the Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defence Detachment who were highly praised for their successes in the live shell firing drill and had a picture taken with them.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Kyok Sik, Pak To Chun, Ri Yong Gil, Son Chol Ju, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il, Ri Song Guk, Ri Yong Rae, Kim Myong Nam and An Ji Yong. 

S. Korean Warmongers Will Meet Stern Punishment: Spokesman

    Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces of the DPRK National Defence Commission issued the following statement Wednesday:
    The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army on March 5 stated to the world the resolute determination of the army and people of the DPRK in the face of the anti-DPRK hostile acts that have become all the more undisguised on the part of the U.S. and other hostile forces.
    The south Korean military warmongers have not yet come to their senses and are still going reckless.
    On March 6, the puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff let the chief of its operation headquarters call for "punishing" even "commanding forces", to say nothing of "bases" and "reinforcements" by mobilizing military means if the DPRK commences actions.
    On March 8, the puppet Ministry of Defense also got its spokesman to dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the north and bluster that "it would remove the north's regime from the earth in reflection of the will of mankind" if the nuclear-armed north launches an all-out action.
    Defense Minister nominee Kim Pyong Gwan, who will replace military hooligan Kim Kwan Jin, also said that they will counter the north's all-out action with "regime change or toppling of its regime including psychological warfare".
    This frenzy kicked up by the south Korean warmongers is no way irrelevant with the swish of skirt made by the owner of Chongwadae.
    Ill-boding voices are being heard from the inner room of Chongwadae. They call for maintaining a high alert posture for "security", saying that "a country can not be protected only with weapons" and "a country concentrating on beefing up military muscle only including nuclear weapons will bring about its own destruction."
    Matter is that all these developments are timed to coincide with the U.S.-south Korea Key Resolve and Foal Eagle nuclear war rehearsals that have got into full swing.
    The DPRK cannot interpret those moves otherwise than a repetition of the long bankrupt confrontation stance of the Lee Myung Bak regime and an expression of utter ignorance of the precious asset of the nation.
    An army of the nation and people possessed of nuclear weapons can always win a victory in the struggle against formidable enemies and reliably guarantee the grandeur and security of the country.
    This is a stark reality unfolded by the world where the law of the jungle governs and a bitter lesson drawn by the DPRK in the decades-long arduous confrontation with the U.S.
    They, however, cried out for "abandoning nuclear weapons", the asset of which the nation can be proud before the world, and "giving up Songun" aimed at preserving peace on this land from outside forces' aggression and war moves in disregard of this stark reality. These are little short of jargons made by the idiots who lack any ability to judge the reality.
    The DPRK launched an all-out action to foil the war moves of the robbers attacking in groups in order to violate the sovereignty of the nation, but the south Korean trigger-happy forces painted it as "provocation". Not content with this, they are working hard to deprive the DPRK of its nukes built to defend the country and the nation. This amounts to a thrice-cursed act of treachery.
    The people and servicepersons of south Korea must turn their rifles on the warmongers in response to the just all-out action of the DPRK, well aware that the sovereignty of the country and the destiny of the nation can never be left to such traitors to the nation.
    What they are doing is an anachronistic act of treachery as they are blindly following the brigandish assertion of their U.S. master keen to put the whole country and the nation under its control, unable to discern what is justice, what is injustice and what is hypocrisy.
    Whatever the U.S. and other big powers decide, resorting to high-handed and arbitrary practices, can by no means be justice.
    Whatever resolutions the UN Security Council adopts cannot be truth as it is a mere voting machine bereft of impartiality and equity.
    Injustice and lies can never become justice and truth and their hypocrisy is bound to be revealed in face of the times and history.
    The DPRK army and people's unyielding struggle to protect the sovereignty of the nation and the right to existence and defend its supreme interests is the just one as proved by history and the truth indicated by the times.
    They have had access to precision nuclear deterrence that has become diversified, tightening their belts, and chosen the arduous road of Songun out of many other alternatives. It is because herein lie justice and truth.
    The south Korean military warmongers can not understand the reality because they are traitors engrossed in sycophancy toward the U.S.
    A man who takes to flunkeyism is bound to become an idiot and a nation that turns to flunkeyism is bound to ruin.
    This is the law proven by long human history.
    The DPRK's army and people will not remain an onlooker to the south Korean warmongers' disgraceful act of transferring the wartime operation control, life and soul of the army, to the U.S. and offering the soldiers as canon fodder to their master.
    That's why the DPRK chose the U.S. and the south Korean military warmongers following it as the major target of the all-out action for defending the sovereignty and the first target of merciless strike.
    The warmongers would be well advised to keep in mind that the Armistice Agreement is no longer valid and the DPRK is not restrained by the north-south declaration on non-aggression.
    What is left to be done now is an action of justice and merciless retaliation of the army and people of the DPRK.
    The south Korean puppet forces should come to their senses.