The puppet warmongers induced the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. on a visit to south Korea to approve "its scenario for exercising the right to self-defense" which calls for attacking the DPRK by "mobilizing all fighters and warship artillery pieces in case of additional provocation." They, at the same time, agreed with him to stage another large-scale south Korea-U.S. joint military exercise.

Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a signed commentary in this connection:

The above-said dangerous scenario to launch a war in league with the U.S. is nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the north and the south and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean Peninsula as it is the height of sycophancy and treachery.

The south Korean conservative group is busy making uproar over someone's "provocation" while clinging to foreign forces' coattail. This is, however, nothing but shameless hypocrisy to mislead the domestic and foreign public opinion.

It is none other than the puppet forces that have staged ceaseless DPRK-targeted war exercises in the West Sea of Korea in which both sides stand in acute confrontation and sparked off confrontation and clashes in the said waters while crying out for "preserving the northern limit line," an illegal one. The recent shelling into the territorial waters of the DPRK side around Yonphyong Island was part of those provocations. It was a legitimate self-defensive measure for the DPRK to have retaliated against the shelling.

It is outside forces which will fish in troubled waters when the tension escalates and confrontation gets acute on the Korean Peninsula.

It is foreign forces that seek strategic interests on the Korean Peninsula. The greater benefit they get from the escalated tension there, the bigger harm they will do to the Korean nation. Then it will suffer from the north-south confrontation and a war of aggression against the DPRK.

This being a hard reality, the south Korean conservative group makes no scruple of escalating cooperation with outside forces in utter disregard of the destiny and interests of the Korean nation, prompted by its criminal design to stifle fellow countrymen.

The south Korean authorities would be well advised to stop running amuck, pondering over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their anti-DPRK cooperation with outsiders.