Rodong Sinmun Sunday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:

The U.S. speaks volumes about "ensuring peace and security" on the Korean Peninsula. But this is nothing but rhetoric to cover up its true colors as a peace wrecker who escalates the tension and brings the dark clouds of a war to hang over the peninsula.

The U.S. is the arch criminal posing a military threat to the DPRK and systematically straining the situation on the peninsula through its ceaseless war drills.

The warmongers pretend to be interested in the detente on the peninsula, but they can never cover up their sinister intention.

If they are concerned for the peace on the peninsula, they should stop the dangerous military actions contrary to it, to begin with.

Nevertheless, the U.S. is persisting in its dangerous saber-rattling together with the south Korean warmongers, asserting that it is the best way to go ahead with military pressure and economic sanctions simultaneously.

It is the sinister intention of the warmongers to push the situation on the peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension and ratchet up international pressure upon the DPRK under the pretext of its countermeasures to cope with the situation.

The U.S. is talking about "dialogue" in public but more frantically intensifying its provocative anti-DPRK offensive drills behind the scene. This is the height of its double-dealing tactics.

It is as clear as noonday that the U.S. is the arch criminal escalating the tension on the peninsula and disturbing the peace and stability in Northeast Asia.