Rodong Sinmun Saturday observes this in a signed article.

RIMPAC is an adventurous multinational preliminary war mainly targeted against the DPRK in terms of its period, contents and nature and scale, to all intents and purposes, the article says, and goes on:

The U.S. seeks to hurl its "allies" and followers into reckless collective armed invasion to stifle the DPRK by way of waging this preliminary war.

In recent years the U.S. has staged joint naval exercises, pursuant to PSI which it cooked up mainly for the purpose of conducting "maritime and air intercepting" aimed at the naval blockade against the DPRK.

The main thrust of RIMPAC is to conduct operations for preemptive strikes from sea and air.

This proves that the purpose of the said war exercises is to round off the operations for preemptive naval and air attack on the DPRK.

What merits particular attention in RIMPAC is the fact that the U.S., south Korea and Japan have become brisk in their moves to knock into shape a triangular military alliance.

This indicates that the moves to cook up the above-said alliance to stifle the DPRK by force of arms by bringing together Japan, its junior ally, and the south Korean puppet authorities, its war servant, have reached a more dangerous phase.

The army and people of the DPRK are highly alerted over this very serious development.

They love peace but will never show any leniency towards the aggressors. Should the enemies finally ignite a war against them, they will not miss the chance but settle accounts with the aggressors for all their crimes.