The statement said: Amid the touch-and-go situation prevailing on the Korean Peninsula he let loose a spate of extremely bellicose remarks that "more powerful armed forces would be deployed in the area along the northern limit line" and "the south would directly counter the north with warning shots without warning signal."

He went the lengths of blaring out that the recent official announcement of the DPRK that it is making preparations for the launch of a satellite to use the space for peaceful purpose is "a threat to the south side."

A guy with the nature of a war maniac is bound to make everything an excuse for a war, the statement said, noting that the Lee Myung Bak murderous dictatorial regime, a war regime is wholly to blame for the crisis of a war mounting on the Korean Peninsula.

The way of preventing a war which may bring disaster to the nation and achieving its peace and prosperity is for all the Koreans to pool their efforts and force the Lee regime to step down, the statement noted.

It urged Ri Sang Hui, a henchman of the Lee regime, to resign his post as minister of "National Defense" at once.