Rodong Sinmun in an article terms the drills an adventurous saber-rattling gravely wrecking peace on the Korean peninsula and stability in Northeast Asia and increasing the danger of a nuclear war.

The rehearsals are time bombs increasing the danger of the second Korean war, a nuclear war, the article notes, and goes on:

The warmongers are undisguisedly threatening the DPRK by opening to media war equipment involved in the exercises, while vociferating about massive introduction of special warfare forces, "all-out mobilization of horrible weapons" and "occupation" of the whole areas of the north.

The above-said saber-rattling will inevitably lead the north-south relations to the brink of war.

We will never remain a passive onlooker to the criminal war moves of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers disturbing peace on the peninsula and blocking the cause of peaceful reunification.

The powerful strategic and tactical strike means of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army are waiting for the signal flares of the final battle, sharply watching the saber-rattling of the provocateurs.

Minju Joson in a commentary says the Korean army and people will clearly show what a real war is like to the aggressors and warmongers running wild like wolves bereft of reason to realize their purposes for aggression.