BALLISTIC ROCKET LAUNCHING DRILL IS RIGHT FOR SELF-DEFENSE OF SOVEREIGN STATE: KPA STRATEGIC FORCE SPOKESMAN

The U.S. and its vassal forces are running around like a chicken with its head cut off following the ballistic rocket launching drill conducted by Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on March 6.

It is against this backdrop that the UN Security Council, at the instigation of the U.S., Japan and the south Korean puppet forces, made public a press release terming the KPA's ballistic rocket launching drill as "threat" and "violation of resolution", after discarding international justice and impartiality once again.

A spokesman for the Strategic Force of the KPA in a statement Thursday said that there is no country in the world whose army responsible for the defense of the state takes into account the approval by the UN or article of the international convention when staging exercises and it does not make sense to claim that the KPA's rocket launching drill becomes a threat to world peace and security.

The statement went on:

We have never acknowledged the illegal "resolution" cooked up by the U.S. and its vassal forces.

The aggressors and provokers keen on holding the largest-ever nuclear war drills against the north after massively introducing nuclear strike means in and around the Korean peninsula are finding fault with the regular and just drill of the KPA for defending sovereignty. This is nothing but a strange act like a thief crying "stop thief".

No matter what rhetoric the aggressors and provokers may make, our Strategic Force will more perfectly arm itself with our-style rockets of super precision and intelligence and further round off the Juche-based rocket strike war methods.

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces should clearly bear in mind that our warning that if a single bullet is fired into the areas where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised, it will blow up the bases of aggression and provocation with the matchless Hwasong artillery pieces mounted with nuclear warheads, is not hot air.

A spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea (NPCK) released a statement on Thursday in denunciation of the south Korean puppet group of traitors for persistently enforcing the early deployment of THAAD despite the strong opposition and protest at home and abroad.

The statement said that the puppet group is pressing for the deployment of THAAD, yielding to the gangster-like demand of its U.S. master, adding it is an unpardonable act of reducing south Korea into an permanent nuclear war advanced base for the U.S. in realizing its strategy for dominating Asia-Pacific, war theatre of big powers and a base to kill the fellow countrymen and endangering the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

It went on:

The puppet forces claim that THAAD deployment is a "security measure to cope with the north's missile threat" even though they are clearly aware that not only THAAD but any other interception system will be useless in the face of the might of the ultra-modern ballistic rockets of the DPRK. Their rhetoric is just sheer sophism to deceive the public at home and abroad.

The U.S. persistent moves to deploy THAAD in south Korea is a product of planned scenario to inveigle the south Korean puppet forces into the global missile defense system targeting big powers around Korea.

The puppet forces' reckless THAAD deployment farce in utter disregard of the destiny of the nation renders the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region all the more grave and makes the crisis of a nuclear war a reality with each passing day.

It is quite natural that countries around Korea are expressing deep concern about THAAD deployment and are taking all-round countermeasures in strong protest against it.

The puppet forces will be made to face stern punishment and to pay a dear price as they threaten the security and interests of the DPRK and neighboring countries in active pursuance of the U.S. ambition for aggression, in defiance of the repeated warnings at home and abroad.

The puppet forces of traitors will face stronger protest and retaliatory measures at home and abroad for their frantic moves for THAAD deployment as war servants of the U.S., and chaos and damage to be entailed by it will all be imposed upon the south Korean people.