The statement said:

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 being staged under the mask of "annual" and "defensive" are military moves to bring down the socialist system of the DPRK and turn it into a U.S. colony to all intents and purposes.

The U.S. is introducing a nuclear carrier, nuclear submarines and nuclear-capable strategic bombers into the Korean peninsula.

This is a revelation of the U.S. sinister aim to destroy the DPRK's self-defensive nuclear deterrent by force of arms.

In case the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces fire even a single bullet or shell into the inviolable territorial land, air and waters of the DPRK, it will lead to a total war.

South Korea will not escape from ruin.

The heroic Korean People's Army is fully prepared to cope with any provocation.

If the U.S. makes an irretrievable mistake of igniting a war against the DPRK, it will lead to the end of the former, an evil empire.