Rodong Sinmun Friday observes in a bylined article in this regard:

The military provocations of the Lee group have reached the gravest phase, the article notes, and goes on:

The ceaseless saber-rattling for invading the north is one of the basic methods of the warmongers at home and abroad to escalate the tension on the Korean Peninsula and provoke a war of aggression.

When the crow flies her tail follows.

The frequent war drills of the Lee group can lead to an actual war against the north any time. North-targeted war exercises being staged against the backdrop of the tense situation prevailing at present are like a time bomb.

The above-said madcap saber-rattling only invites self-destruction.

The DPRK interprets it as no more than last-ditch efforts of a group of rats to seek a way out of a ditch.

The Lee group of traitors, the band of confrontation lunatics, and their stronghold will be reduced to ashes by the merciless strikes of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, warns the article.