Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary brands these reckless moves as the criminal acts of leading the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which is inching close to the brink of a war, to the extremity, adding that the DPRK can not but take a serious view of such moves.

A touch-and-go situation is prevailing in Korea because the south Korean puppets waged reckless confrontational moves for a war, obsessed with a wild ambition to invade the DPRK, it observes.

What is problem is that the U.S. bellicose forces are supporting the puppets by waging saber-rattling against the DPRK from the outset of the new year, the commentary says.

It admits of no argument that such moves are provocative acts of harassing peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula the situation of which is already instable, and increasing the danger of a nuclear war to extremity, the commentary says, and continues:

The U.S. imperialist aggressor troops in south Korea staged madcap drills for a war together with puppets of the south Korean army almost every day recently at a time when the U.S. warmongers let loose a spate of reckless remarks calling for the "use of military power" against the DPRK. These exercises are a preliminary war to examine and round off the performing capability of the already mapped-out war scenario targeted against the DPRK without an exception. These are nothing but a revelation of military attempt aimed at mounting a preemptive attack on the DPRK any time.

The U.S. imperialists' preparatory moves for launching a new war only compel the people of the DPRK to sharpen revolutionary vigilance against them and bolster a powerful deterrent capable of coping with them.

The people of the DPRK want peace but are never afraid of a war. If the U.S. bellicose forces seek to ignite a war at any cost the army and people of the DPRK will deal a deadly blow at the aggressors by giving full play to the strength and mental power they have built up by dint of Songun.

The U.S. war-like forces should clearly understand the will of the people of the DPRK and stop their reckless military frenzy.