The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) military sent a notice Friday to South Korea to protest what it called anti-DPRK psychological operations, the official news agency KCNA reported.

According to the KCNA, the head of the DPRK team in north-south general-level military talks sent a protest notice to the south side Friday.

The notice claimed the South Korean defense minister had disclosed plans to distribute frequency-modulated radios to be used for anti-DPRK psychological broadcasting. It would also set up large electronic displays and loudspeakers to broadcast anti-DPRK propaganda.

The anti-DPRK psychological operations were "an undisguised declaration of war against the DPRK and another unpardonable and serious military provocation to it," the notice said.

The notice warned, if South Korea did not halt the broadcasting and the scattering of anti-DPRK leaflets, it would "never be able to escape the KPA's (Korean People's Army) physical strikes" at the sources of the propaganda. The army would "choose its mode of counteraction depending on the attitude of the south side," it said.

South Korea should clearly understand there was no limit on the scale of retaliation it risked, the notice said.

According to an agreement reached by the north and south in June 2004, both sides were to stop all the propaganda campaigns, including loudspeaker broadcasting and slogans from Aug. 15 of that year.