The Russian paper Pravda in an article titled "Disgraceful setbacks in U.S. policies toward the DPRK" said:

The whole world is aware that the DPRK doesn't make an empty talk.

The DPRK demonstrated before the whole world that it emerged a full-fledged nuclear weapons state and missile power.

It remains rock-firm despite any hostile moves to stifle it.

The U.S. should seek a solution in its repeated failures in its policies toward the DPRK.

The vice-president of the Party for Free Motherland of Brazil noted the U.S. should choose between the two options: whether to seek detente and stability or to push the situation to an explosive point by sticking to its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The secretary general of the France-Korea Friendship Association said detente on the Korean Peninsula totally depends on whether the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy toward the DPRK or not.

The Romanian Workers' Association in a statement said the U.S. policy to militarily stifle the DPRK has completely gone bust.

The Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in a joint statement said: If the U.S. keeps pursuing its policy of aggression against the DPRK, the latter will continue taking measures for self-defence. In case the former opts for a clash in the end, the service personnel and people of the latter will annihilate the aggressors and reunify the country.

The Peruvian National Independent Movement for Free Voting's Union and the Peruvian Committee for Supporting the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea urged the U.S. to make a responsible choice as the arch criminal who spawned the nuclear issue on the peninsula and has escalated the tension.