The statement accused them of kicking off the two day-long U.S.-led PSI-related maritime interception and search exercises on Oct. 13 at Pusan Port and in the waters off it.

These exercises to be involved by huge war hardware including various type warships and war planes are grave provocations running counter to the peace of Asia and international law and an undisguised declaration of a war against the DPRK as their objective is to lay a network of maritime blockade against it, it noted, and continued:

What is more surprising is that the Japan Maritime "Self-Defence Force" was reported to be involved in the exercises, an intolerable insult to the Korean nation.

The statement urged the Lee Myung Bak "government" to halt at once the racket of military confrontation posing a threat to the peace in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Northeast Asia.

It declared that dynamic actions would be staged throughout south Korea against the exercises while they are under way.