In his address made upon his assumption of office he blustered that "the north should be punished till it is brought to its knees." While inspecting a frontline area, he ranted that "one should clearly know who one's enemy is" and "the headquarters and army of the north are the principal enemies".

What he uttered is nothing but a spasm of a war maniac keen to ignite a war by increasing the tension on the Korean Peninsula and a very dangerous act to escalate the confrontation with fellow countrymen.

His reckless remarks are by no means accidental.

He is a wicked traitor to the nation as he has been hell-bent on confrontation with fellow countrymen, serving in the army for years.

Being such a bad guy, he did not hesitate to make such reckless remarks as labeling the headquarters and army of the DPRK "principal enemies," putting his predecessors into the shade.

This fact alone goes to prove that he is the thrice-cursed enemy of the nation.

What is ridiculous is that he is dreaming of bringing the north to its knees, raising a hue and cry over someone's "provocation" following the Yonphyong Island incident.

The military clash on the island was sparked off entirely due to the reckless military provocation on the part of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces wire-pulled by it.

Had the south Korean puppet forces cancelled their plan for shelling as demanded by the Korean People's Army and refrained from firing shells into territorial waters of the DPRK, the military clash would not have occurred.

Nevertheless, he, far from drawing a proper lesson from the said incident, is agitating inter-Korean confrontation and kicking up a war atmosphere. He talked rubbish that "the north's reaction is not worth consideration" and "the north has always behaved so" and the like.

At a "meeting of major officers of the army" he ordered them "to exercise the right to self-defence on the basis of the conception of "measures first and report next" and openly cried out for making air raids on the area of the DPRK.

These outbursts only betray his sinister scenario to orchestrate the second and third Yonphyong incidents under the pretext of the non-existent "provocation from the north" and mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK at any cost under the same pretext.

He was reported to have given the right to preemptive shelling to all units of the army including those in the frontline areas. This fact indicates what extent his bellicose nature has reached.

The puppet military authorities' scenario for a preemptive attack on the DPRK amounts to an open military threat to it and an extremely provocative move to push the situation to the brink of a war.

Those who are fond of playing with fire are bound to perish in the flames kindled by them.

He should bear in mind that he will face a sterner judgment by history and the nation than what his predecessors did if he persists in the racket for a war of aggression against the DPRK.