The commentary recalled that the Defense Ministry submitted to the Ministry of Planning and Finance the next year's budget 6.9 percent higher than this year's.

This is an action disregarding the difficulties the people are suffering in their living due to economic crisis, it charged.

The military authorities openly claimed that an increased budget is necessary for establishing a preemptive attack system and the building a missile shield to cope with nukes and missiles of the north and introducing new type fighters, it noted, and continued:

The introduction of weapons for preemptive attack is a dangerous move for sparking a crisis on the Korean Peninsula and an all-out war.

It demanded a cutdown of the budget for introducing weapons for preemptive attack, a threat to the peace on the peninsula.