North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un guided a rocket launch on Saturday and called for an end of United States army operation in South Korea.

The latest rocket launch came a day before Pyongyang and Seoul commemorate the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement that ended the Korean War between the two countries.

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Kim guided the short-range ballistic firing drill of the Korean People's Army and said the military activity was successful.

"Whoever dares challenge the just cause of the service personnel and people of the DPRK is bound to meet a final ruin," Kim said, as quoted by China's Xinhua.

The young leader said the U.S. continued its harsh policy against North Korea since the 1950s during the Korean War.

It was the latest of several launches conducted by the reclusive North Korea this year following the July 17 rocket launch that Kim directed personally from a site close to the South.

The international community condemned Pyongyang's recent provocations.  The United Nations has prohibited the firing of missiles to avoid escalation of conflicts in the Korean Peninsula.

Technically, North and South Korea are still at war with no peace treaty signed between the two countries.

Pyongyang has called on Seoul and U.S.  to minimize its military drills and accused the joint military exercises as prepation to attack the North. Both U.S. and Seoul denied Pyongyang's accusations.

Next month, the annual South Korea-U.S. military exercises will be held.

Meanwhile, the two countries commemorated the Korean War Armistice Agreement in a ceremony held at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom, where the ceasefire agreement was signed, to honor the hundreds of thousands of fallen soldiers from both sides.

U.N. Command General Curtis Scaparrotti, who attended the ceremony, urged North Korea to stop its provocative actions to avoid the same war that divided the peninsula.

"Their continued opposition in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions as well as the international community norms is unacceptable and it further isolates them from the international community, further deprives their people of any hope of prosperity in the future," Scaparrotti said, according to Arirang news.

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