DPRK leader Kim Jong Un checked the readiness of the artillery units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to strike at South Korea and warned that the order "to break the back of the enemy" could come at any moment.

"The KPA elite artillery units protecting the southwestern front line must maintain high combat readiness in order to break the enemy ridge on the first team," this message of the Central Korean News Agency (KTAC) on Friday, May 5, quickly spread all Leading world media. The day before, the Chairman of the DPRK inspected military units based on the islands of Changjedo and Mudo in the Yellow Sea, near the territorial waters of South Korea. Kim Jong-Eun wanted not only to personally verify that the border of the republic is vigilantly guarded, but also to warn that an order to open fire on the enemy can come at any moment.

"After he was read out a report on the latest movements of the puppet enemy forces of South Korea in the northwestern islands and about the reinforcement received by the unit on the island of Yongpyeong, Kim Jong-un tested an artillery strike plan for the new garrisons of the enemy," , That, having studied all the data, Kim Jong-un called the soldiers to be ready to defeat the enemy.

The tiny islands of Changjedo and Mudo and the island of Yongpyeong are on different sides of the so-called "northern demarcation line", unilaterally conducted by the United States. Pyongyang does not recognize this division and considers another border that Seoul does not agree with. As a result, there are divisions of both armies on the islands, between which there are periodic shootings. The last major clash occurred in 2010. Then, according to official data, two South Korean soldiers were killed, 17 were wounded.

Despite the fact that these events occurred several years ago, Kim Jong-un again recalled them as an occasion for pride, and once again praised the artillerymen who, in response to the provocations of Seoul, turned the island of Yonpyeong to "a sea of ??fire".

The army of the DPRK in recent months is in a state of heightened alertness in connection with statements from Washington that the US can strike a preemptive blow to North Korea if they notice the real threat posed by Pyongyang to the allies of Americans. In the DPRK they regarded such statements as provocative, but they did not stop demonstrative tests of new weapons.