The largest-ever joint military drills were nuclear war exercises which the enemies conducted after throwing away such disguise as "annual and defensive drills", Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a commentary.

The commentary goes on:

The enemies made the provoking of a nuclear war against the north an established fact and staged the drills with the purpose of an actual war. Herein lies the grave danger of the drills.

The U.S. imperialists cooked up a new "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK by abusing the UN while taking issue with its satellite launch for peaceful purposes on the eve of the joint military drills to extremely escalate the moves for "isolating" and "blockading" it.

The way of a war of aggression in the new century optioned by the U.S. imperialists is to launch a war with the main stress on surprise air-strike and "strike for disabling armed forces".

The joint military drills fully prove that the U.S. and south Korean insanity for a nuclear war against the DPRK has gone beyond the limit to reach the zenith of danger and that they have rounded off full preparations and only watched for a chance to ignite a war.

Their frantic war drills helped the DPRK understand clearly once again that it was just when it decided to bolster up national defence capabilities with self-defensive nuclear deterrence as its pivot.