Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Tuesday terms it an undisguised and challenging nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK.

Some days ago, U.S. politicians blustered that they would carry on joint military exercises, claiming in the international arena that the justifiable self-defensive steps taken by the DPRK are "disturbing stability in the whole region", "sparking off serious concern" and "posing a threat".

The U.S. repetition of its criminal scenario to disturb peace and ignite a nuclear war through a vicious cycle of tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the region every year would only increase its danger.

The joint military exercises now under way under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK are strictly pursuant to the U.S. strategy for world domination, the strategy to control the Asian continent with the Korean peninsula as a bridgehead.

The U.S. arms buildup and largest-ever war maneuvers on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of Northeast Asia are bound to spark a new arms race and Cold War in the region.

The U.S. and the south Korean warmongers will have to pay a high price for staging extremely dangerous war maneuvers, challenging all peace initiatives and proposals reflecting the good faith and magnanimity of the DPRK.