DPRK fires missiles as war games start
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E-mail Xinhua, March 2, 2015
Kim said the DPRK's threatening actions and words represent provocations, part of its "intentional" armed protest against the annually-held South Korea-U.S. military exercises of "defensive" nature.
Such measures are a serious challenge to security on the Korean Peninsula and clearly violate resolutions imposed by the UN Security Council, which bans the DPRK from firing ballistic missiles, the spokesman said.
According to Kim, the DPRK launched some 90 rounds of artillery shells and ballistic missiles in eight times before and after the South Korea-U.S. annual war games began in early 2014.
By conducting such provocations, the DPRK intended to escalate tensions on the peninsula to spread feelings of insecurity among South Koreans and pass the bucks of frosty inter-Korean relations to South Korea, said Kim.
A South Korean military official was quoted by Yonhap News Agency as saying that signs of the DPRK preparing for live-fire drills in western waters are being detected, noting that the military is closely monitoring the DPRK's military movement near inter-Korean borders.
Meanwhile, Uriminzokkiri, one of the DPRK's major publicity websites, said in a statement Monday that the DPRK will fire " aimed" shots at any balloons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) from South Korea carrying anti-DPRK leaflets.
On Oct. 10, 2014, the DPRK fired off machine gun shots against balloons, which were carrying anti-DPRK leaflets, floated by a South Korean civic group, near the demarcation line, triggering a trade in machine gun fires between the two sides.
The DPRK publicity body warned that any South Korea-floated balloons and UAVs will be shot down by DPRK's cannons and missiles, not by some rounds of bullets as seen in October last year.
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