Hyon Ki Chong, a general officer of the KPA, told KCNA:

Pilots of the Air Force are now in full readiness for sortie to attack the reactionary ruling machines of south Korea and the U.S. military bases when the long-range artillery force starts its operation of strike.

And all the anti-aircraft rocket units, too, are in high alert to shoot down all enemy planes.

An officer Kim Jin Hyon declared that all submarines and battles ships of the KPA are ready to attack the south Korean puppet forces and the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces.

Noting that world meida had described the testfire of submarine-based ballistic missile as an expression of the DPRK's tremendous military strength and a sort of warning to the U.S., he said that any provokers would never escape KPA's ballistic missile strike.

Another officer Ri Kye Sik said: All commandos of my unit are eager to wipe out the provokers who worked out an "operation for striking the leadership" of the DPRK, before the attack by KPA long-range artillery force.