The puppet military gangsters perpetrated such provocations as firing bullets and shells from the areas around the five islands including Paekryong and Big Yonphyong islands and scattering leaflets hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK on March 24.

The National Peace Committee of Korea bitterly denounces on behalf of the Korean nation the desperate moves of the puppet military authorities to bring the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula and push the inter-Korean relations to a total collapse through their joint military exercises with the U.S. and anti-DPRK confrontation racket as a thrice-cursed treason, the statement noted, and went on:

The gravity of the situation is that these hideous provocations are being perpetrated in an organized manner with the south Korean authorities involved and under their backstage wire-pulling.

This goes to prove that neither the inter-Korean relations can ever be mended nor peace on the Korean peninsula be achieved and a war is inevitable as long as south Korea pursues an anti-DPRK confrontation policy and the puppet military gangsters are allowed to run wild to dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

The DPRK will mete out the severest punishment to those who dare hurt the dignity of its supreme leadership and slander its social system any time no matter who they are and wherever they are.

The south Korean authorities had better behave themselves, bearing deep in mind the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their reckless confrontation moves against the DPRK.