The speakers at the press conference accused the puppet Ministry of Defense of announcing that it would stage shelling exercises in the East, West and South seas of south Korea from Dec. 6 to 12. They branded them as reckless actions to spark off an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula.

They urged the authorities to stop at once the moves to escalate the confrontation getting on the nerves of the DPRK and take steps to achieve peace.

The security on the peninsula does not depend on exercises for a war of aggression against the DPRK but on the implementation of the June 15 joint declaration, they noted, urging the authorities to stop at once the dangerous shelling exercises.