Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Saturday says:

The U.S. is desperately moving to tarnish the image of the DPRK, faulting its bolstering of nuclear force for self-defence. This is just a base trick to cover up its true colors as a criminal chiefly to blame for increasing tensions and nuclear threats.

The second test-launch of ICBM Hwasong-14 conducted in July was a serious warning to the U.S. which is running riot, bereft of reason.

The more desperately the U.S. resorts to unprecedentedly hideous sanctions to pressurize the DPRK, the stronger the degree of the latter's countermeasures will become. Such moves of the U.S. will only boomerang on it.

The DPRK has successfully advanced by dint of self-reliance and self-development in the face of U.S. sanctions and pressure. Today it has emerged a world-class nuclear power.

The U.S. is fatally mistaken if it calculates that such sanctions and nuclear blackmails would work on the DPRK.

The U.S. will receive more big or small "gift packages" if it persists in hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Victory is a tradition of the DPRK and the U.S. is fated to meet defeat.

The U.S. should bear this in mind and not run amuck.