Provocateurs Can Never Escape Merciless Baptism of Fire: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- The situation on the Korean peninsula is inching close to the touch-and-go crisis.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces began the largest-ever joint naval exercises in the East Sea and West Sea of Korea on Oct. 16 with the mobilization of the U.S. nuclear-powered carrier Ronald Reagan task force and nuclear submarine, more than 40 warships in all, nuclear strategic bombers, Stealth fighters and other air force.

The U.S. and the puppet forces claim the exercises will be a "strong military warning message" to the DPRK and a demonstration of the substantial strike action against it in case a military countermeasure is chosen.

The exercises are timed to coincide with Trump's repeated crazy outbursts and the frequent military confabs of top military officials of the White House and the U.S. Defense Department envisaging "decapitation operation" targeting the supreme leadership of the DPRK. They are pushing the already acute situation on the Korean peninsula to the worst phase and seriously threatening peace and stability in Northeast Asia.

The saber-rattling the U.S. and the puppet forces are openly conducting at the doorstep of the DPRK hardens its determination to bolster the just nuclear retaliatory capabilities for stamping out the evil empire under the uplifted banner of simultaneously developing economy and nuclear force.

It is a vital issue on which hinges the rise and fall of the Korean nation to foil the U.S. criminal nuclear war scenario for stamping out the whole land of Korea and enslaving the whole Korean nation.

It is to defend the country and save the nation from the U.S. brigandish aggression and interference that the DPRK has bolstered the huge nuclear deterrence for self-defence despite manifold difficulties.

However, far from feeling gratitude for the measures taken by the DPRK for self-defence which fully guarantee the nation's security, the south Korean puppet forces are acting a shock brigade in executing their U.S. master's criminal nuclear war moves. This is an open indication of their will to regard the DPRK as rival, not as fellow countrymen.

Now mounting in south Korea are rebuff and indignation at the U.S. warmongers resorting to war hysteria while unhesitatingly letting out outbursts shocking the world.

Despite such mindset, the south Korean puppet forces are bringing the dark clouds of a war, chiming in with the U.S. master's zeal for aggression of the north. With nothing can such treacherous act be justified.

The Koreans in the north, the south and abroad will never pardon the south Korean authorities' criminal act as they are blindly making treachery, not understanding the trend of the times and who the chief culprit of the nation is.

The aggressors, provocateurs challenging the DPRK will never be able to escape merciless baptism of fire not only in the sky and land but also in the sea. -0-