Ju Kyong Chol, a workshop head, told KCNA:

"The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors made another hideous provocation at a time when the Korean Peninsula is under the touch-and-go situation due to the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises jointly kicked off by the south Korean military and the U.S. forces.

The group's arch crime, committed when the DPRK was seized with grief over the demise of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, is still arousing anger from among the fellow countrymen.

We can no longer endure such provocations."

Ra U Gil, a member of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards, said:

"Now that our own-style sacred war was declared against the group of traitors, we will turn out in the war with a hammer in one hand and a rifle in the other to wipe out the enemy.

Those who hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK even a bit will find no breathing spell in this land and sky."