They are renewing their pledge to turn out in a sacred retaliatory war.

Minister of Agriculture Ri Kyong Sik told KCNA that those who hurt the social system and dignity of the DPRK will never remain unpunished. As already warnings were served, the DPRK will make a clean sweep of the south Korean traitors through a sacred retaliatory war involving the whole army, people and the nation, he added.

A vice-chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea, Kim Myong Suk, said the Korean women will join in the sacred war against the enemies.

Ri Won Il, chairman of the North Hwanghae Provincial People's Committee, said the enemies should clearly know that the decision of the army and people of the DPRK is not rhetoric.

Vice-president of the State Academy of Sciences Ri Song Uk said the Lee regime dared perpetrate grave provocations risking war. The army and people of the country will react to the enemy's provocation with a stern punishment and counter its war with a merciless sacred retaliatory war, he added.

Ri Mun Chang, an official in charge of the construction of the Huichon Power Station, declared that those who slandered the socialist system of the DPRK deserve a stern punishment from the nation.