Rodong Sinmun says this in a commentary Wednesday.

It goes on:

Neither the Korean nation nor the world people can escape a nuclear war disaster if the enemies are overlooked in their nuclear war racket for invading the north which increasingly gains severity.

The DPRK needed a new mode of counteraction under the extreme situation in which the U.S. sought to brandish a nuclear war sword.

The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into the general offensive to fully counter the nuclear war provocation by the U.S. and its followers, a reflection of the burning hatred of all servicepersons and people of the country and their will to make a thousand-fold retaliation against the enemies.

Now that the enemies have openly opted for nuclear war provocation defying the sovereignty of the DPRK, its military counteraction can not but be more preemptive and offensive nuclear strike.

All the operation groups of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK are fully ready to preempt merciless and annihilating strike at the enemies if they show even the slightest sign of provocation.

The U.S. should clearly be aware of the war deterrence built up by the DPRK for decades for a final victory in confrontation with it.

The aggressors, war maniacs had better be prudent if they do not want to be shelled by various caliber multiple launch rocket system, being targeted by the retaliatory nuclear bomb attack means deployed standby in the operation theatres of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army.