The warmongers staged the drill of making a surprise strike at main strongholds of the DPRK with artillery pieces, blustering that they would "turn the enemy's bases of provocations and forces supporting them into ashes through precision strikes."

Ceaseless north-targeted war drills are being staged in forefront areas at a time when outbursts calling for not ruling out a war and making preemptive strikes are heard from among the warmongers, pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the worst phase.