YEONPYEONG ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA ( -- Fresh artillery blasts near a South Korean Island attacked earlier this week apparently came during drill today by North Korea.

Pyongyang warned today that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war. The north's artillery drills were within earshot of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.

Pyongyang's state news agency says the days of verbal warnings are gone.

A U.S. military commander on Friday toured the wreckage of island communities devastated by a North Korean artillery barrage on Tuesday.