Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a bylined commentary.

What is ridiculous is that hostile forces including the U.S. are busy describing the important measures taken by the DPRK as "a provocation" and expressing "concern" over them in a bid to evade the responsibility for the situation, the commentary notes, and goes on:

This is a poor ploy to pass the buck for the situation to others.

The DPRK has made every possible effort to defend the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, exercising its maximum self-restraint. But the premeditated moves of the U.S. bellicose forces to ignite a nuclear war against the DPRK pushed its patience to its limit.

As the U.S. is working hard to provoke a nuclear war, it was entirely just for the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK to have made important decisions including the exercise of its right to make a preemptive nuclear strike at the strongholds of aggressors to protect its supreme interests.

The DPRK does not want a war but it has become unavoidable as the aggressors are imposing a war on it.

The DPRK's option has become more explicit now that the UN Security Council is toeing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, far from taking measures to take issue with the U.S. moves to ignite a nuclear war against the DPRK, a grave threat to the global peace and security.

In case the U.S. unleashes a war against the DPRK, its army and people will put a definite end to the vicious cycle of escalated tension by giving fullest play to the might of Songun.