Xinhua News Agency said that the DPRK foreign ministry spokesman released a statement demanding U.S. troops pull out of south Korea, continuing:

The DPRK has been the first target of the U.S. armed forces present in south Korea for more than half a century since GIs occupied it.

The country could not but build a nuclear deterrent to cope with the increasing threat from the biggest nuclear weapons state in the world.

The U.S. military presence in south Korea not only turned the Korean Peninsula into the biggest hotspot in the world but has now become a vicious tumor-like entity gravely threatening the peace and stability of Northeast Asia and the rest of the world.

The U.S. forces in south Korea have become forward-deployed forces and "strategic mobile forces" whose nature and role are to contain the region and hold military hegemony in the region.

The U.S. military presence in south Korea is a vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK.

The spokesman warned that if the U.S. seeks to keep its forces in south Korea contrary to the unanimous desire of the regional people, it had better get itself ready to experience an all-out war with the DPRK.

ITAR-TASS also made a similar report.