Minju Joson Sunday says in a bylined commentary in this regard:

This is the most dangerous provocation as they are aimed at pushing the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war.

The said exercises are a nuclear attack rehearsal for invasion of the DPRK, not for "defense".

It is the ulterior intention of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet warmongers to ignite a war with huge forces and war hardware involved, if an opportunity presents itself.

They claim the planned saber-rattling is to cope with "all threats", in a bid to mislead the public at home and abroad. But it is no more than sheer sophism to cover up their black-hearted intention.

The exercises are a premeditated provocation of the warmongers seeking to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.

The U.S. remains unchanged in its hostile policy toward the DPRK to stifle it by force of arms. The Lee Myung Bak group, too, has not changed even a bit its ulterior intention to do harm to fellow countrymen with backing of outside forces.

Nothing is more foolish than the attempt of the group of traitors to realize its ambition for invading the DPRK by military means in collusion with the U.S. imperialists.

The war hawks would be well advised to stop running riot and cancel at once the plan for the nuclear war exercises.