He said:

"Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, planned by the south Korean military in league with U.S. forces, are tantamount to encroachment upon the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK.

Armistice has continued for nearly 60 years in the Korean Peninsula.

A war rehearsal against a belligerent party is little different from declaration of a war.

The heroic KPA will smash the joint war exercises through a sacred war of our own style.""

A researcher of the Economy Institute under the Academy of Social Sciences, O Sun Il, said:

"Traitor Lee Myung Bak is really a confrontation maniac opposed to reunification.

The Lee group, which faces a ruling crisis now, is seeking a way out in DPRK-targeted war exercises.

Nobody knows when the exercises would lead to a real war.

If an opportunity presents itself, we will turn out in sacred battles to reunify Korea."

Chae Song Ok, a student at Kim Chaek University of Technology, said:

"We are well aware of the history of national division, caused by the U.S. imperialists.

It seems they don't have a good knowledge of the DPRK and they do not know what a real war is like. There is no limit to the striking intensity and range of the KPA."