The warlike forces went ahead with the high-stake artillery drill on five islands in the West Sea of Korea under the signboard of "regular exercises", said the statement, and went on:

On the strength of the "northern limit line", the south side has tried to exercise jurisdiction over the area and regularly staged military drills, a move generated by the war maniacs' theory of provocation.

There is no "northern limit line" in the West Sea of Korea, except a bogus line created by the war maniacs.

Even the United States and south Korea's conservative media call it the line of confrontation and provocation, indicative of the nature of the drills as a war rehearsal for aggression.

The south Korean bellicose forces can never extract results from their tendentious war drills.

It will only trigger the DPRK's merciless counterattack.