The statement said that the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria fully supports the principled stand of the DPRK against the largest-ever joint military drills being staged by the U.S. and south Korea.

It went on:

As the joint military drills are an undisguised game for preemptive nuclear attack aimed to overthrow the system of the sovereign state, it is a reasonable right of the DPRK to self-defence to strongly counter it.

The U.S. tries to make the public convince the above-said drills are due to the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons. This is a profound confusing of right and wrong.

We strongly denounce the dangerous war exercises which will inflict nuclear disaster not only on the Korean peninsula but also on the world.

The U.S. and south Korean authorities should respond to the DPRK's proposal for removing the danger of war from the Korean peninsula and the region and creating a peaceful environment with a stop to the aggressive war drills.