The statement branded the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, staged by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets despite the DPRK's repeated warnings, as part of the war scenario for aggression aimed to ignite another Korean war.

The U.S. imperialists and the pro-American Lee Myung Bak puppet regime should be held entirely accountable for the escalated tense situation of the Korean Peninsula going to the brink of war, it said, and went on:

Those seeking to unleash a war can be defeated only by force of arms, not by words.

The March 9 statement of a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army is a decisive and definite answer to the criminal war plan of the U.S. imperialists, the south Korean regime and the Japanese militarists.

The treasured sword of Songun will help defeat any aggressor forces and reliably defend the independence and dignity of Korea.