The maneuvers spearheaded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff would last through May 3.

The warmongers have staged military drills with various missions under the pretext of coping with local war to be provoked by someone and examining combat preparedness after declaring "Jindogae-1", highest alert order, in Ryongdong area.

Rat-like Lee Myung Bak group, frightened at the nation's firm pledge to take revenge upon it for its consecutive hideous provocation, is conducting DPRK-targeted military exercises in all parts of south Korea and kicking up the reckless racket for confrontation with the DPRK in a bid to evade the responsibility for the grave situation and put its ambition for aggression into practice at any cost.