Jong In Su, a student at Kim Il Sung University, told KCNA that the "sanctions resolution" 2371, to all intents and purposes, is a wanton violation of the DPRK's sovereignty and an open challenge to it.

Instead of accepting the DPRK's existence and learning to coexist with it, the U.S., not content with anachronistic sanction and pressure campaign against the DPRK, is desperately keen on bringing a dark cloud of nuclear war to the Korean peninsula, he said, adding:

Now is the very time to take a resolute action to exterminate the U.S. which provoked the Korean war to plunge our homeland into a sea of blood and has resorted to all sorts of means and methods to obliterate our ideology and system century after century.

Yu Chol Min, a worker of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, branded the U.S. for letting loose reckless remarks that so-called military option targeting the DPRK is under consideration, saying:

We should give a terrible taste of our self-defensive nuclear deterrent to the U.S. which dares make an open challenge to the peace-loving DPRK.

Ju Kwang Hyok, a farmer of the Tongbong Co-op Farm in Hamju County, said:

The U.S. and hostile forces get ever more impudent in their moves against the DPRK, but we are firmly optimistic of the final victory as we are holding fast to the most powerful nuclear sword for peace.