Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in an article in this regard:

A tit for tat is an invariable mode of counter-action of the DPRK, the article says, and goes on:

It is the DPRK's legitimate exercise of its inviolable right to protect the fate of the country and nation with its annual and regular military exercises for self-defence.

The U.S. and south Korean puppet warmongers are making desperate efforts to block the regular military exercises of the Korean People's Army while doing whatever they like including making a nuclear threat and blackmail and slapping sanctions against the DPRK and pursuing ceaseless arms build-up and saber rattling for invasion of it.

No one can deter the DPRK from putting its military exercises for self-defence on an annual and regular basis to steadily bolster up its war deterrence and defence capabilities in every way now that provocative military exercises of the warmongers at home and abroad are getting evermore serious.

The U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces' projected Ulji Freedom Guardian in disregard of the repeated warnings of the DPRK is a blatant challenge to its sincere efforts to protect peace and improve the inter-Korean relations.

The DPRK will counter nukes and missiles in kind and resolutely cope with annual and regular military exercises for invading it through annual and regular military drills for waging a great just war for national reunification. This declaration of the DPRK is by no means an empty talk.

If a nuclear war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, the U.S. mainland which was never exposed even to a shell will not go safe.