Rodong Sinmun Friday in a commentary brands this as a deliberate and premeditated grave provocation.

It goes on:

It is an undeniable clear fact that the Park Geun Hye group, driven into the worst ruling crisis due to the ferry Sewol sinking disaster, is working hard to find a way out of it in escalating the military confrontation between the north and the south and igniting a war.

The puppet warmongers' military provocation may lead to an all-out war against the north at any moment.

The Park group has gone the lengths of declaring that it would not rule out a war, an extreme phase. Under this situation the DPRK can never remain a passive onlooker to this provocation.

Park Geun Hye and the puppet military hooligans are the root cause of evils and misfortune of the nation as they are set to bring a disaster of a war to this land.

The Koreans should rise up to make a clean sweep of these confrontation maniacs keen to perpetrate provocations against the north and bring about a nuclear disaster to this land.

It is necessary to settle accounts with the puppet military hooligans by force of arms right now as they are perpetrating provocative shelling in a back lane awkwardly and cowardly.

They should choose between the two options: to come out for a military engagement with the north or make an apology for the provocation against the north and completely halt it.