KPA WILL GO OVER TO PREEMPTIVE RETALIATORY STRIKE: ITS GENERAL STAFF

Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 joint military exercises kicked off by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are becoming more reckless as the days go by.

The enemies are opening to public without hesitation that the largest-ever Ssangyong drill being staged in the Phohang area of south Korea is the climax of OPLAN 5015 to "bring down the social system" by striking the supreme headquarters and major core facilities in the DPRK through the "operation to advance into Pyongyang" accompanied by a sudden surprise landing on the DPRK.

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in a statement Saturday said that the prevailing grave situation makes all the service personnel of the KPA discard the patience which they have long exercised. The KPA General Staff in charge of all operations of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, upon the authorization of the dignified Supreme Command, formally declares the following military counteractions:

From this moment, the first combined task units stationed in the eastern, central and western sectors of the front will go over to carrying out the operation for pre-emptive retaliatory strike at the enemy groups involved in the Ssangyong drill.

It is the Juche-oriented counter-operation mode of the KPA to immediately contain and wipe out by force of arms troops and means involved in the operation the moment it judges their scenario to intrude into inviolable territory, air and waters over which the DPRK's sovereignty is exercised.

The KPA will counter the enemies' landing drill aiming at "advance into Pyongyang" with the operation to liberate the whole of south Korea including Seoul and the enemies' tactics of "high-density strike" with an ultra-precision blitzkrieg strike of the Korean style.

Steadfast is the will of the KPA to mercilessly wipe out those troops hurled into the "operation for advancing into Pyongyang" and blow up the den of architects of it. Those who intend to launch aggression and war against the DPRK will be as most foolish and miserable as digging their own graves by themselves from that moment. The KPA is waiting for the moment to punish the aggressors, keeping them within its firing range.

The gun roar for retaliating against the aggressors will turn out to be fireworks celebrating national reunification. The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK holding tightly the arms to annihilate the enemies with towering hatred for them are waiting for the dignified Supreme Command to issue an order to launch a preemptive strike of justice on the aggressors.