Now men and officers of the KPA are enraged at the regime's high treason.

An officer, Kim Hung Ryong, told KCNA:

"The statement said that those who hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK even a bit would find no breathing spell in this land and sky. This declaration is fully supported by the servicepersons.

Not content with the anti-DPRK war drills, a unit of the south Korean puppet army carelessly hung portraits of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu on walls and doors, scrawling unspeakable defamatory words below them.

This fact goes to prove that the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors is the sworn enemy with whom we can never live under the same sky.

All of our servicepersons are hardening their resolve to make a clean sweep of the group of traitors to the last man. Action is needed rather than warning. Our unit is anxiously waiting for an order."

An officer, Ryu Su Hyang, said:

"The anti-DPRK acts done by the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors are wrecking peace. They are tantamount to a declaration of war. With a war declared, I think there will be an order to advance southward.

Once the order is given, we will kill traitor Lee and his followers, the military hawks, in the name of the entire Korean nation."

An officer, Kim Myong Chan, said:

"Traitor Lee Myung Bak, Defence Minister Kim Kwan Jin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jong Sung Jo of south Korea invented a hideous provocation and adopted it as 'state task'.

We have to punish this group of traitors at any cost or history will never forgive our generation.

We will never accept any apology of the internal affairs team of an Inchon-based puppet army unit which committed the afore-said crime."