Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a bylined article.

The frantic joint military exercises being staged by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces to invade the DPRK are pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the worst phase of a war, the article notes, and goes on:

Nevertheless, they are shifting the blame for the situation onto the DPRK, persistently spreading the fictitious story of "provocation." As one's true self is bound to come out, they can never impute the responsibility for the acute situation on the peninsula to others.

The above-said joint military exercises are a product of the U.S. policy of aggression on the DPRK and of the south Korean puppet forces' ambition to invade it, pursuant to the U.S. policy. This is the final phase of the dangerous war racket which has been systematically escalated with the seed of a nuclear war.

Their war racket is an extremely reckless act of bringing dangerous nuclear holocaust to the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia and the world.

The DPRK has made every possible effort to improve the inter-Korean relations and achieve peace and reunification of the country. However, there is a limit to the patience of the DPRK.

Its final conclusion is that fire and strength should be countered in kind.