The statement said:

The anti-DPRK moves of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces including the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises entered into a dangerous stage. To cope with this, the DPRK took such countermeasures as totally nullifying all the north-south pacts on non-aggression and the joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and closing off the north-south liaison channel at Panmunjom.

Quite natural is the DPRK's stance that it can no longer deal with the pro-U.S. group of traitors in south Korea hell-bent on war moves of aggression against the compatriots.

The successive regimes in south Korea have never observed the north-south non-aggression pacts, long rendering them defunct.

Now that the joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was totally nullified, no one is allowed to say about the DPRK's "dismantlement of nukes".

Such tough countermeasures serve as the only answer of the DPRK to the hostile forces which are getting frenzy in their DPRK-targeted war moves, engrossed in confrontation with compatriots and enmity toward the DPRK.