More than 330,000 troops of the puppet army, over 23,000 mobile combat equipment, more than 60 warships and various type aircraft, the biggest scale since the start of Hoguk exercises in 1996, are involved in the exercises to stage the "drill for carrying out the operational plan of frontline corps", "drill for defending northwestern islands", "naval and coastal infiltration drill" and "joint landing drill."

This madcap saber-rattling now under way on the whole front including the areas along the Military Demarcation Line with all corps-level units involved has already turned the whole of south Korea into a theater of provocative war exercises against the DPRK.

The international community is concerned about the possible development of this largest-ever war rehearsal into another Yonphyong Island shelling incident as it was kicked off at a time when the north-south relations have been pushed to the catastrophic phase due to the anti-DPRK leaflet-scattering operations by human scum.

The Hoguk drills which the puppet warmongers started together with U.S. forces are a preliminary war, a test nuclear war to invade the DPRK to all intents and purposes in the light of their scale and programs. They seem to have forgotten the lesson taught by the Yonphyong Island shelling incident in which the five islands in the West Sea turned into "hell haunted by the specter of death."

The warmongers involved in the Hoguk war drills against the DPRK four years ago attempted to stage an adventurous shelling drill threatening it with Yonphyong Island as a base.

To cope with this serious situation, the DPRK side sent a notice to the south side strongly warning that in case it perpetrates a provocative naval shelling, the DPRK will promptly deal physical retaliatory blows at it.

But, the puppet forces, buoyed by hysteria for invading the north, opened fire into the inviolable territorial waters of the DPRK side, defying the repeated warnings made by the DPRK side in advance.

Yonphyong Island was pounded by the powerful artillery pieces of the Korean People's Army on the southwestern front.

The shelling was a merciless retaliation made by defenders of sovereignty as they taught the puppet military warmongers what high price they had to pay for their reckless provocation.

They now look anxious to repeat the bitter setback they suffered at that time.

They should bear in mind the bitter lesson taught by the Yonphyong Island shelling incident and immediately stop the reckless war maneuvers.