Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun on Monday says:

This was a deliberate and very dangerous saber-rattling to escalate tension in the hotspot waters in the West Sea and trigger off the military clashes between the north and the south.

The south Korean puppet warmongers' ceaseless war drills targeting the north in the hotspot waters in the West Sea can spill over into a real war any moment.

The relations between the north and the south are now in the worst phase of tension due to the U.S. and the south Korean regime's madcap war rehearsals against the DPRK and moves to deploy THAAD.

At this time the Park Geun Hye group has gone so reckless as to perpetrate military provocations to hurt the fellow countrymen in the north, driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an uncontrollable phase, far from responding to the patriotic proposal of the DPRK to hold the great national conference for reunification.

The south Korean puppet forces are trouble-makers and the root cause of disasters as they are keen to ignite a war against the DPRK, obsessed with the ambition for stifling the fellow countrymen, utterly indifferent to the destiny of the nation.

If the south Korean warmongers persistently go reckless, defying the DPRK's warnings, they will face more severer punishment than what they sustained during the Yonphyong Island shelling incident.