Minju Joson Saturday in a commentary terms this a deliberate action to pull up the DPRK and a politically-motivated undisguised provocation to it.

It is a legitimate independent right of a sovereign state to develop and fire rockets, it notes, and continues:

The U.S. remains unchanged in its scenario to invade the DPRK even at present and it is the arch criminal threatening the peace on the Korean peninsula.

It is a very just measure for self-defense for the Korean People's Army to stage routine rocket-firing drills to cope with the U.S. constant threat of aggression.

It is the firm will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK to deal decisive blows at aggressor forces coming in attack on it whether they are nuclear carriers or other type weapons.

Peace on the Korean peninsula is preserved thanks to the tremendous military muscle of the DPRK.

The U.S. absurd act of taking issue with the KPA's routine rocket firing drills can cut no ice with anyone as the former is standing in the way of improving the inter-Korean ties by screwing up the situation on the peninsula through its dangerous war drills for the invasion of the north.

The DPRK will intensify the drive for implementing the line of simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force true to the Songun politics, the validity of which has been proven in practice.