North Korea was confirmed to have made a video of its 2010 shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island and used it as military training material.
 
According to North Korean military information that KBS acquired, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the head of the General Political Bureau in September 2012 to use the video titled “Yeonpyeong Island in Flames” as military material to encourage a combative spirit among soldiers.
 
In particular, Kim ordered in February of last year that the video be shown throughout the entire military, urging the North’s soldiers to take on a do-or-die spirit like what it called "the heroes" of the shelling had exemplified.  
 
The video is said to include scenes of North Korean forces attacking Yeonpyeong Island with dozens of cannons and a number of other battle scenes filmed by the North. The video demonstrates that the shelling of the island was a prepared move by North Korea and not a justified retaliation to the South’s provocations as it has claimed.  
 
Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the shelling of the island in the Yellow Sea that killed two South Korean marines, two civilians and injured around 20 people.