The statement pointed out that the bellicose forces finally started the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises aimed at invading the DPRK, defying the strong protest and criticism by people at home and abroad.

The U.S. is threatening the DPRK through test nuclear war maneuvers while paying lip-service to "denuclearization", it charged.

It demanded the U.S. stop at once the DPRK-targeted war maneuvers and withdraw its troops and nuclear equipment from south Korea.

All the fellow countrymen will strongly react to the war moves of the U.S. and the dictatorial regime in the spirit of "By our nation itself", the statement said, calling for a vigorous struggle against war, for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from south Korea and the conclusion of a peace treaty.