The joint statement said:

There is no country in the world such as the DPRK being subject to a constant war threat for more than six decades. Any country has not been subject to all threats of war maneuvers for aggression of more than 18 000 times by the hostile forces against it.

It is a lie that Yankees are describing Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises as "annual and defensive ones".

UFG is aimed to invade the DPRK and realize the ambition for "change of the north's regime".

The U.S. and south Korean puppet forces' military exercises in south Korea are assuming more aggressive nature, and their scale, contents and form are going beyond those of military drills staged in the past.

The prevailing situation proves that the DPRK's new strategic line on simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force is, indeed, the only and just choice.

We fully support the statement issued by the spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry which declared that if the U.S. continues staging nuclear war maneuvers to stifle the DPRK by force of arms, its counteraction for self-defense to cope with them will be put on an annual and regular basis.