Meanwhile, the 7th Division of the army staged a drill of firing hundreds of live shells in Cholwon, south Korean Kangwon Province.

Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This clearly indicates what a dangerous phase the moves of the south Korean warmongers to escalate the tensions on the Korean Peninsula and ignite a war for aggression against the DPRK have reached.

The counter-measure of the Korean People's Army was just what reduced Yonphyong Island to a sea of flames, a due punishment meted out to provocateurs.

What merits serious attention is that the recent war maneuvers were dangerous war exercises simulating an all-out war, not just a drill to retaliate against the DPRK's "provocation".

The situation goes to clearly prove that the Lee Myung Bak puppet group is going reckless to retrieve its defeat on Yonphyong Island two years ago and ignite a war of aggression against the DPRK at any cost.

The frantic hysteria for a war kicked up by the Lee group while groundlessly taking issue with the DPRK with such rhetoric as "provocation" will only reveal the belligerent nature of the group escalating the tensions on the Korean Peninsula and bringing the danger of a nuclear war.