The Department of Press and Information of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a press statement titled "US Random Exercise of Strength Will Result in Aggravated Security Crisis" on March 9.

The press statement said the United States is going to stage the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield 2025, an aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal, in collusion with the military gangsters of the Republic of Korea, and continued.

What should not be overlooked is that the enemies are scheming to apply the "OPLAN 2022", aimed at a "preemptive attack" on the nuclear weapons facilities of the DPRK, in the current exercises under the "guidelines for nuclear deterrence and nuclear operations" cooked up and published in July 2024.

Lurking behind the above-said war exercises, traditionally staged by the United States and the ROK, is the persistent and unchangeable aggression ambition of the United States, which seeks to propagate the American-style view on value and the Yankee-style liberal democracy into the inviolable territory of a sovereign state and finally to overthrow the DPRK government and its social system, just seen through the operational name "Freedom Shield", and of the ROK following the United States.

Obviously, the United States intends to push the situation in the Korean peninsula and the region to an uncontrollable phase by ceaselessly staging in a gradual and wavelike way Freedom Shield and other large-scale war drills and thus perpetuate the vicious cycle structure of provocation and tension.

It is seeking an anachronistic attempt to gain the advantage of strength in the Asia-Pacific region and realize the geopolitical realignment by expanding the military alliance with its stooges into a comprehensive strategic alliance under the pretext of "threats" from someone.

Under this confrontation and hegemony-oriented line of the United States, strategic means including the nuclear submarine Alexandria, B-1B strategic bombers and the nuclear carrier Carl Vinson are constantly deployed in the Korean peninsula and reckless aerial espionages and all kinds of joint military exercises are being staged one after another. Such acts are increasing the legitimate security concerns of not only the DPRK but also regional countries.

The increase in the visibility of deployment of US strategic means on the Korean peninsula and the US-led bilateral and multilateral war rehearsals reminding one of the actual war prove more evidently that the DPRK should be the most thoroughgoing and more overwhelming in deterring the enemies' various anti-DPRK nuclear war threats.

The United States should be mindful that its habitual hostile policy toward the DPRK, openly denying the DPRK's legitimate existence and victorious advance, will only add justification to the principle of toughest anti-US counteraction, declared by the DPRK, and face the undesirable consequences, escalated security threat.

The DPRK will redouble its responsible efforts to keep lasting peace in the Korean peninsula and the region through the trustworthy strength accompanied by the radical growth of the nuclear force, the press statement added.