Rodong Sinmun Saturday says in an article in this regard: These joint military drills are grave ones for preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK in violation of its sovereignty and an open provocation for bringing a nuclear disaster to the Korean peninsula.

Recalling that through the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle the U.S. and south Korean forces have comprehensively examined and rounded off the capability to rapidly deploy the aggressor forces in the Korean peninsula and readiness for joint operations and acquired the capability for making a preemptive nuclear strike at strategic depth and major bases of the DPRK, the article goes on:

After making THAAD deployment an established fact for the first time in its history, the U.S. is mulling staging a drill for its use and applying the "4D OPLAN" for preemptive attack on the DPRK with precision nuclear strike means.

The grave situation today when the U.S. is bringing the danger of a nuclear war to the Korean peninsula eloquently proves that how just the DPRK was when it had access to powerful nuclear deterrent under the banner of Songun.

The DPRK has the single-minded unity of the army and people, which nobody can understand by the West's outlook on value and way of calculation, and the matchless armed forces trained by the great Songun brilliant commander.

It is the steadfast resolution and will of the army and people of the DPRK to beat back the aggressors attacking with nukes in kind and achieve genuine peace.