Asia-Pacific

DPRK military warns against US, ROK 'provocation'

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-08-15 17:41

PYONGYANG - The military of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sunday warned the US and South Korea that the DPRK would beat back mercilessly their "repeated provocation", the official news agency KCNA reported.

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According to the KCNA, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army Sunday released a statement to accuse the joint naval exercises named Ulji Freedom Guardian to be staged by the US and S. Korea of leading to an  "all-out war" .

The military exercises including the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint exercises  "represent the phase of practical actions aimed at a full-dressed military aggression" , the spokesman said.

The army and people of the DPRK would never be  "taken aback by the reckless war provocations of the bellicose forces" , and would "deal a merciless counterblow"  to the US and South Korea. The military counteraction of the DPRK would be the  "severest punishment no one has ever met in the world" , the spokesman stressed.

The Obama Administration should  "cool its head heated with the moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK"  in the statement.

Meanwhile, South Korea would clearly understand sooner or later what a miserable fate it would meet, the spokesman added.

The Ulji Freedom Guardian war game is to be held from August 16 to 26, with the pariticipation of more than 30,000 US soldiers and 56,000 South Korean soldiers.