Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.

It goes on:

The U.S. imperialists have completed all preparations for carrying out their scenario for mounting a preemptive attack on the DPRK as evidenced by the deployment of huge forces in south Korea and in its vicinity under the simulated conditions of "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula, etc.

What remains to be done is only an operational matter of how to make a preemptive strike at the DPRK and when and under what pretext. Herein lies the U.S. purpose of building the above-said operational system.

By the recent "U.S.-Japan alliance in the new era" the U.S. imperialists mean the U.S.-Japan military alliance for provoking the Korean war in the 21st century and by a "timely counter-action" they mean a war of aggression against the DPRK which they may start any time. "A consultation about the military scenario" touted by them is nothing but a U.S.-Japan joint military operational plan for igniting another Korean war. It is the ulterior aim of the U.S. to use Japan as a shock force in the war, retaining its grip on Japan as the most important stronghold for carrying out its strategy for a preemptive attack on the DPRK, readjust and tighten the U.S.-Japan military alliance and the U.S.-south Korea military alliance to keep pace with the projected conclusion of a new military agreement between south Korea and Japan and make them serve the purpose of the above-said Korean war.

It is the unshakable stand of the DPRK to counter the "preemptive attack", which the U.S. singled out as its main mode of striking the DPRK, through a more powerful advanced preemptive attack of Korean style.

Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we would like to serve a strong warning to the Japanese reactionaries. The desperate efforts made by Japan to start a reckless war against the DPRK, crying out for "closer alliance" with the U.S. in a bid to get something are as foolish a bid as jumping into the fire with fagots on its back. Japan would be well advised to bear this in mind.

Should the U.S. persistently come in preemptive attack on the DPRK in collusion with Japan, the army and people of the DPRK will deal a thousand-fold retaliatory blow at the aggressors by use of the powerful war means of Songun and thus inflict a bitter defeat upon them.