Ro Yong Su, department director of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, told KCNA:

"The U.S. imperialists and their followers should clearly know who their rival is.

The DPRK people, even tightening their belt, have built up the national power to defend the socialist country. They will turn out as one in the face-off with the U.S. and give vent to grudge of the nation, once it dare attack.

All the SPA Presidium officials will discharge their duty in building a thriving socialist nation while keeping themselves on an alert and mobilized posture against the enemies' military actions."

Jon Yong Son, management board chairperson of the Sokhwa Co-op Farm in Sonchon County, said:

"The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean warmongers challenged the DPRK's patience with nuclear war racket.

The world people still remember the tragic defeat the U.S. imperialists and their allied forces suffered in the last Korean War (June 1950-July 1953). And they will soon witness again how the Korean people, more powerful than at that time, reduce the strongholds of the U.S. imperialists and their followers into a sea of flames.

The agricultural workers of my farm are in full readiness to rise up in a sacred war for national reunification."

Kim Han Il, vice-minister of Metal Industry, said:

"The DPRK is not a weak country what was in the past. It has the invincible Paektusan army guided by Marshal Kim Jong Un, the iron-willed illustrious commander.

If the U.S. imperialists and their allied forces provoke a war to stifle the DPRK by force, it will only bring them to their own destruction."