Some media are echoing this claim.

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

How can the DPRK's satellite launch and the fiction about the third nuclear test invented by them be provocations and threat? How can they serve as pretexts for justifying their military actions for aggression?

The commentary reveals who is a real provocateur and who is exposed to threat on the Korean Peninsula.

The U.S. and its followers ran the whole gamut of wrongdoings including the adoption of a UNSC presidential statement under the absurd pretext that the DPRK's satellite launch for peaceful purposes was a missile launch. They are afraid that the DPRK may conduct the third nuclear test.

They are now busy with drumbeats of war, groundlessly accusing the DPRK of provocations and threat, as they are afraid of its firm stand against their criminal acts.

It is the ulterior motive of the U.S. imperialists to keep the tension escalating on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to bar the DPRK from building a thriving nation and force the army and the people in the DPRK to perish and thus swallow up the whole of Korea with ease.

Lurking behind their propaganda about provocations and threat is a strategic purpose to hastily conclude their hegemonic strategy to put the Mideast region under their control and go unchallenged in Northeast Asia including the peninsula.

The hostile forces launched a lot of military satellites into space, monitoring activities of the DPRK and posing a missile threat to it.

The DPRK is left with no option but to take necessary measures now that the U.S., Japan and south Korean authorities continue blaming the DPRK's satellite launch for peaceful purposes and floating the fiction about the third nuclear test to serve their sinister purpose.

They are sadly mistaken if they think the army and people of the DPRK will remain a passive onlooker to their desperate moves, the commentary warns.