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Report of KPA Navy Command

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- A report of the Navy Command of the Korean People's Army was made public on June 9. The report said:
    The military provocations perpetrated by the south Korean army in the West Sea of Korea have gone beyond the danger line.
    It increased the number of speed boats deployed in waters off Taechong Island and a series of Yonphyong islets from 8 to 12 and has infiltrated its warships into the territorial waters of the north side everyday, deliberately escalating the tension in these waters.
    The south Korean Maritime Police Agency has busied itself mobilizing 1,000 to 3,000-tonnage maritime police warships, helicopters and maritime police commandoes under the pretext of tightening control over fishing boats and inspection.
    In another development, the south Korean army has staged madcap firing exercises in waters west of Taechong and Paekryong Islands and in waters off the Yonphyong Islets with a flotilla of speed boats and guard craft involved.
    The purpose of the firing exercises staged by the south Korean army in the West Sea is to be proficient in firing at warships of the north with various types naval artillery pieces and 155 mm self-propelled howitzers deployed on the Yonphyong Islets.
    It is a fact well known to the world that these reckless military provocations have been committed at the instigation of the U.S. imperialists to serve their sinister political purpose.
    The south Korean army has gone so foolish as to keep the so-called "northern limit line" the U.S. had unilaterally drawn.
    Moreover, it is now allowing warships to freely sail in the sensitive waters in the West Sea where two skirmishes occurred.
    Such reckless military provocations of the south Korean army are seriously getting on the nerves of the KPA seamen as it is a very dangerous military gamble which may spark off another skirmish.
    There is a limit to the patience and self-restraint of the north.
    If the south Korean army keeps pursuing confrontation right after reaching an agreement with the north side at the north-south general-level military talks on making concerted efforts to ease the military tension, the north will be left with no option but to do what it should do and not allow those who try to intrude into its territorial waters even an inch but deal merciless blows at them.
    The south Korean army's military provocations in the sensitive waters in the West Sea is as foolish an act as jumping into the fire with faggots on its back.
    The south Korean military authorities should stop going mad, bearing in mind that they will have to pay a very dear price if they go on inciting military confrontation swimming against the trend of the times. This is the north's stern warning.