Minister of Defense Shin Won-ji: ``If North Korea provokes, we will retaliate on the principle of ``immediately, forcefully, and to the end'' - South Korea

Minister of Defense Shin Won-sik announced on the 16th that if North Korea were to provoke anyone south of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and the Northern Limit Line (NLL), it would be ``immediately, forcefully, and to the end''.