A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement Thursday said that Obama's reckless remarks are nothing but last-ditch efforts to dodge the criticism of the hostile policy toward the DPRK mounting inside and outside the U.S. and give a further boost to the international atmosphere of pressure on the DPRK.

The only way of averting a war and defending peace in Korea, the world's biggest hotspot where constant danger of a nuclear war lingers due to the U.S. which is staging joint military exercises for a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK after introducing lots of strategic assets, is to increase in every way the military capabilities for self-defence with the nuclear deterrence as a pivot, the statement said, and went on:

The U.S. is talking about dialogue and negotiations while slapping unprecedentedly harsh economic sanctions against the DPRK and kicking up conspiratorial "human rights" racket in league with hostile forces. This is an intolerable mockery and insult to the DPRK.

The best way for the U.S. to escape deadly blows of the DPRK is to exercise self-prudence and self-restraint, not encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK.

The DPRK will take multi-phased eventful measures for doubling its capabilities for nuclear attack to cope with the U.S. vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK aimed to dare threaten its sovereignty and right to existence, the statement warned.