Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes this in a signed article.

In order to hide the gravity of the military provocations and mislead the public opinion the south Korean bellicose forces described the exercises as "defensive ones" for increased "capability to counter asymmetrical provocation" by someone, the article says, asserting that the anti-DPRK war exercises can never be justified under any circumstances.

The article goes on:

The south Korean authorities conducted the largest-ever joint naval war exercises targeted against the DPRK as part of the "military countermeasures" in the wake of the "Cheonan" case. This is an undisguised military threat to the DPRK and provocation against it

The situation clearly shows that the war exercises staged by the puppet forces in the West Sea of Korea were not "defensive exercises" but the deliberate military provocation to ignite a war against the DPRK.

The most urgent issue on the Korean Peninsula, where a touch-and-go situation prevails, is to create a peaceful atmosphere.

The Korean Peninsula has been in the state of neither war nor peace for more than half a century.

All the anti-DPRK war exercises conducted in south Korea constituted a factor that aggravated the confrontation and tension between the north and the south and hindered the national reunification.

It is well-known that whenever the Korean nation's desire for reunification ran high, the warmongers inside and outside conducted madcap large-scale war exercises, rendering the situation tense and disturbing the efforts for the solution of the reunification issue.

Now that the puppet bellicose forces conduct the war gambling one after another after making the provocation of an anti-DPRK war an established fact, the DPRK will clearly show to those buoyed by war fever what a real war is like any time it deems necessary through a war of retaliation of its own style based on its nuclear deterrent.