South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts, which continued on Monday, were aimed at emphasizing that the mine blast was provocation committed by North Korea and relaying messages about the superiority of Seoul-style democracy as well as world news and weather forecasts, the South Korean Defense Ministry official said.

The North Korean broadcasting is apparently in reaction to South Korea’s similar loudspeaker campaign at the border launched a week ago in retaliation for the North’s detonation of three land mines on the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone.

“The further Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint military exercises are intensified, the strongest military counteraction the DPRK will take to cope with them”, a spokesman for North Korea’s national defence commission said on Saturday. “North Korea… is the invincible power equipped with both [the] latest offensive and defensive means unknown to the world”, the NDC spokesman was quoted as saying by the media.

And an anchor for Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency singled out the U.S.in a report for the state-run TV channel, CNN reported.

The threat came a day after North Korea said it would turn Seoul into a “sea of fire” if South Korean activists continue the practice of launching propaganda leaflets across the border by helium balloon.

In his speech marking the 70th anniversary, the head of the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy said Sunday that Seoul should prepare for the next thirty years with the goal of expanding its economic zone through economic unity.

The 2 nations stay technically at struggle as a result of the 1950-53 Korean battle led to a ceasefire moderately than a peace treaty.

As Pyongyang time is officially established, North Korea has also been quick to criticize the south for remaining aligned with the Japanese time zone.

South Korea resumed the psychological warfare broadcasts after 11 years when two soldiers were injured by a landmine allegedly laid by North Korea earlier in August.

In using clocks to make a political statement, North Korea may be borrowing a page from the Chinese Communist Party playbook.

The rising tensions topped the agenda of a National Security Council meeting convened and chaired Monday morning by the South’s President Park Geun-Hye.

Such bombast is not unusual and it is not the first time Pyongyang has threatened to attack its enemies.