North Korean media are continuously broadcasting a provocative statement by the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army that was issued on Sunday against South Korea.

The North’s Korean Central Broadcasting Station and Korean Central Television carried for a second day Monday the statement by the mission and repeatedly broadcast the statement throughout the day, just as they did on Sunday.

In the statement, the mission said that the North will, if provoked, strike back and turn the South Korean capital of Seoul into a "sea of fire.” The statement came in protest of South Korea’s plans to hold the “Key Resolve” joint military drills with the U.S.

Observers say the North apparently is broadcasting the statement in a bid to create a sense of crisis among its people.

Meanwhile, the North Korean media did not mention a belligerent message the North sent to the South regarding psychological warfare. In the message sent via an inter-Korean military hotline on Sunday, the North warned that if South Korea’s psychological warfare continued, it would fire shots aimed at relevant South Korean facilities.