Provocateurs Will Face Retaliatory Strike Anytime: CPRK Secretariat

Pyongyang, March 14 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued the following information bulletin No. 1022 on Thursday:
    The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers are busy staging the madcap Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a more reckless phase.
    In view of the grave situation, the DPRK declared at home and abroad that the Korean Armistice Agreement and all the north-south agreements on nonaggression would be nullified from March 11 when the saber-rattling is going into full swing and it would take stronger countermeasures in succession.
    Pursuant to this, the army and people of the DPRK have taken positions for a final attack for national reunification and all sophisticated strike means including nuclear strike means are waiting for an order to hit the targets.
    The important measures declared by the DPRK are a proper counteraction against the high-handed hostile actions of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet forces and their reckless moves to invade the north and ultimatum to them.
    Nevertheless, the puppet forces are challenging the DPRK's measures, jabbering that they are "escalating tension" and "south Korea would strongly react to the attempt to scrap the agreements".
    The puppet authorities and despicable reptile media are taking issue with the DPRK's important measures everyday, talking about "agreement of both sides", "international recognition" and the like. Not content with this, they are insisting that the saber-rattling is a "defensive drill being staged every year within the framework of the Armistice Agreement".
    As recognized at home and abroad, the AA and the agreements on nonaggression have long been violated and reduced to dead papers by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces.
    They are the very ones and arch criminals who have systematically violated the AA and the agreements on nonaggression since the very moment they were adopted and took effect.
    All legal mechanisms for preventing military conflicts have become defunct in this land due to the unprecedented moves of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces to stifle the DPRK and their endless provocations, pushing the grave situation beyond control.
    The U.S. nuclear carrier task forces and nuclear strategic bombers aimed to attack the DPRK have been busy operating in the seas of south Korea and its vicinity and the air above them all the year round. Consequently, not a day passes without provocative exercises for a war of aggression against the DPRK.
    As a result, the Korean Peninsula has turned into the most dangerous hotspot in the world and a dangerous nuclear arsenal where even a spark may ignite a nuclear war.
    It is the height of shamelessness for provocateurs coming in attack to talk about the AA and the preservation of the agreements on non-aggression.
    The puppet group is going so ridiculous as to describe the DPRK's resolute decision as "threat" and "psychological warfare".
    The aggressors and provocateurs should face up to the prevailing situation.
    They are sadly mistaken if they misinterpret the present grave situation as a verbal confrontation just as they did in the past.
    The provocateurs will not be able to escape retaliatory blows at any moment.
    The army and people of the DPRK will blow up all the strongholds and bases of the aggressors and provocateurs fond of playing with fire as they had declared before.
    The disturbers of peace, war provocateurs and the chieftain of fratricidal confrontation can never find their shelters to escape our just strike.
    The south Korean puppet group had better behave itself. -0-