Alexandru Chiriac

Pyongyang, December 19. Artillery troops of the armed forces the DPRK are in full combat readiness. As reported Gazeta.ru, with reference to Yonhap, the measures taken in the event that South Korea still will carry out the planned shooting exercises in the Yellow Sea.Today earlier reported that South Korea is not going to cancel the military exercises on the island Enphendo. Thus Seoul responded to international appeals. Defense of the country stated that, weather permitting, the exercises will be held on Monday or Tuesday.Meanwhile, North Korea has warned that if South Korea would hold artillery exercises, disaster strikes. Earlier, Moscow called on South Korea and the United States to refrain from conducting the planned firings in the Yellow Sea.The Russian side expressed "extreme concern with the plans of Kazakhstan to be held in the presence of the General Staff Command of the Armed Forces U.S. to Kazakhstan from 18 to 21 December in the Yellow Sea near the island Enphendo artillery fire using live ammunition."Meanwhile, as reported by Rosbalt, South Korea may transfer the planned training artillery fire in the Yellow Sea. This decision is motivated by bad weather conditions. "The weather conditions - the most important factor in determining the time of the exercise. Beginning next week is likely to be the most good time to carry them out because the weather should improve, "- said a source in the military command of the Republic of Korea.However, North Korea warned on the eve of what will make a military strike on the territory of its southern neighbor in the event that Seoul will hold a planned shooting in the border areas. Add, the head of Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, the U.S. has previously said that the Korean Peninsula, the probability of outbreak of hostilities. He said that Pyongyang has "raised the stakes in the confrontation with South Korea. "The situation there has changed and is becoming more dangerous," - said the admiral. Mullen associates this with the process of change in Pyongyang leadership.Frequent provocations against South Korea, the admiral said, one way or another are related to the fact that the current leader Kim Jong Il is trying to win at home support for plans to transfer power to his younger son, Kim Jong Ynu.As reported by Rosbalt, relations between Pyongyang and Seoul worsened after 23 November DPRK artillery shelled the South Korean island on which the troops of the Republic of Korea also responded to the fire. As a result, 4 people died, and about 20 injured.

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