In this regard, Rodong Sinmun Tuesday carries a commentator's article disclosing their sinister intention.

It is the height of impudence for the U.S. to talk about the DPRK's measures for self-defense, the article says, and goes on:

The real provocation is the U.S. introduction of huge nuclear strategic assets into south Korea and its surrounding areas against the DPRK and the present threat is the reckless war drills they are staging for "removal of the north's headquarters", "high-density strike" and "operation of advance into Pyongyang".

And the puppet south Korean forces' warships have become evermore undisguised in intruding into the north's side territorial waters. This is the military provocation to which one can not remain a passive onlooker as it pushes the military tension in the biggest hotspot to an explosion.

The story of "threat of the north's provocation" is no more than a nasty fabrication aimed to take issue with the DPRK's access to nuclear deterrent for self-defense for preserving the nation's security and peace from the hostile forces' steady aggression and provocation and to justify the war racket for aggression on the DPRK and the confrontation with compatriots in the north.

The antiquated story about the "north's provocation" and "threat" is nothing but a miserable scream of those who faced the total bankruptcy of the anachronistic hostile policy and treacherous policy of confrontation.

No matter how loudly the aggressors and provocateurs may trumpet about the story of "threat of the north's provocation", the DPRK's nuclear deterrent for self-defense will drastically be bolstered up and the enemies' hostile policy toward the DPRK and the policy of confrontation with compatriots will face final doom.