The Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said in a joint statement that the drill was part of muscle-flexing to cope with the U.S.-south Korea Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises for aggression and a telling blow to Japan on the day when the disgraceful treaty billed "annexation of Korea by Japan" was declared 107 years ago.

The statement further said:

We strongly condemn the UNSC's "presidential statement" taking issue with the launch drill and the hysterical anti-DPRK racket of the Japanese reactionaries.

The DPRK will never kneel down under any pressure.

Manju Ratna Sakya, chairman of the Nepal Journalist Association, said in an article contributed to the newspaper Arpan that the rocket launch drill once again displayed the DPRK's military muscle on a daily increase and that it was a severe warning to the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces hell-bent on the joint military exercises against the DPRK.

The Russian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK and the Dagestan Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy of Russia said in statements that the launch drill is a legitimate right of a sovereign state to bolstering its military capability for self-defence, warning that the U.S. policy of pressure and threat would only spell a war.