North Korea said a recent joint operation conducted in the Han River estuary by the United Nations Command (UNC) and South Korea, was intended to provoke a second Korean War.

The North threatened South Korea and urged it to remember the “bloody lesson” of the 2010 Yeonpyeong Island shelling, but Seoul dismissed Pyongyang’s statement as nothing but empty claims.

“The South Korean government, the world’s worst warmonger, is trying to provoke a second Korean War with the help of the U.S.,” North Korea’s state-run Rodong Sinmun said on Monday, adding that this UNC-ROK joint operation is aimed at triggering Pyongyang’s “self-defensive