Rodong Sinmun Monday warns this in a bylined article.

A touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the peninsula owing to the U.S. and its allies' vicious hostile actions against the DPRK over its satellite launch for peaceful purposes and the step for bolstering up its nuclear deterrent for defence of its sovereignty and due to their madcap war maneuvers.

Huge U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and latest nuclear offensive means have already been deployed in south Korea and its vicinity and large forces of the three services of the army in south Korea and its every ministry and agency have been put on a de facto wartime posture.

This goes to clearly prove that the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military drills may develop into a real war any time.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are escalating the military confrontation with the DPRK. This fact once again proves how just the DPRK was when it had access to powerful nuclear deterrent for self-defence to cope with the hostile forces' increasing threat of aggression.

The DPRK's access to nuclear deterrent constitutes a great contribution not only to the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula but to the peace in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world. Had the DPRK failed to bolster up war deterrent in every way to cope with the evermore undisguised new war moves of the U.S., a nuclear war would have broken out on the peninsula more than ten times and humankind would have undergone the same nuclear disasters as those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The DPRK's nuclear deterrent has been diversified and its performance has grown stronger than ever before. This serves as an iron fist for foiling the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces' military provocations and war moves against the DPRK.

It is the steadfast stand of the DPRK to decisively react to military pressure with an all-out action and a nuclear threat with nuclear deterrent for self-defence, concludes the article.