Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) – Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the following press statement “I remind them that the show of strength in the wrong place will inevitably bring bad results to themselves” on Saturday:
A few days later, nuclear operation drill dubbed Iron Mace and multi-domain joint military exercises Freedom Edge will be staged simultaneously on the Korean peninsula and in the surrounding region with the participation of the U.S. and its allies.
We have already cautioned that the “Guidelines for Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Operations on the Korean Peninsula” fabricated by the U.S. and the ROK are, indeed, a dangerous “idea”.
If the present rulers have sympathized with the dangerous “idea” cooked up by the former rulers and put it into practice with full consideration given to it, we will regard it as an unfiltered “demonstration” of their anti-DPRK confrontational stand and “succession” of confrontational policy.
I remind the U.S., Japan and the ROK that the reckless show of strength made by them in real action in the vicinity of the DPRK, which is the wrong place, will inevitably bring bad results to themselves. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.09.14.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/5ed01bb21c0b1334a45b33fe01d39a2b.kcmsf
Press Statement Issued by Vice-Chairman of WPK Central Military Commission
Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) – Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, on September 13 issued the following press statement titled “The DPRK will continue to exercise sovereignty in a responsible manner to make the enemy states realize that their war drills are a meaningless waste of strength”:
I received a report from the General Reconnaissance Information Bureau that nuclear operation drill Iron Mace and multi-domain joint military exercises Freedom Edge will be staged simultaneously on the Korean peninsula and in its vicinity in the near future with the participation of the U.S. and its allies.
Iron Mace, aimed to improve the joint operation of the nuclear forces of the U.S. and the conventional forces of the ROK according to the “Guidelines for Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Operations on the Korean Peninsula” cooked up by the U.S. and the ROK, is an undisguised nuclear war rehearsal aimed at using nuclear weapons against the DPRK from A to Z.
And the multi-domain joint military exercises Freedom Edge to be staged by the U.S., Japan and the ROK are the most comprehensive and offensive war drill for aggression in its scale, content and nature as it is a series of the large-scale joint military drill Ulji Freedom Shield staged in August.
The reckless military moves of the U.S., Japan and the ROK on the Korean peninsula, the world’s biggest hotspot, pose a grave challenge to the security interests of our state and a major danger of undermining regional stability and escalating military tension.
The U.S. and its allies are gradually undermining the security environment on the Korean peninsula through the expansion of exclusive military blocs and consecutive war drills. Their uneasy movements are calling for reinforcement of war deterrent and maintenance of thoroughgoing war posture.
The prevailing situation proves that the most appropriate option of the DPRK to ensure its security and defend the stability of the region is to constantly reinforce the strategic power to frustrate the hostile forces’ attempt of aggression and remove the military danger.
The enemy states’ attempt to cover up the aggressive nature of the war drills with a sheer sophism that their war drills are “annual” and “defensive” ones can never work on anyone and we have no reason to overlook the U.S.-Japan-ROK military adventure which adds an additional serious variable to the dangerous regional situation.
The U.S. and its followers should not try the patience of the DPRK and give up dangerous moves to further aggravate the tension and security environment of the region.
I stress that if the hostile forces persist in their muscle-flexing, the DPRK will respond to them with counteraction in a very clear and intensified way.
The DPRK’s armed forces assume the important mission to deter war and defend its sovereignty.
The DPRK will make a very responsible choice under the present situation where all unreasonable actions of the enemy states against it are being systematically escalated. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2025.09.14.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/d7503e161e1fe98f4de86cf91e432559.kcmsf
Giving “China’s final warning”-vibes NGL
As another commenter pointed out, US-ROK do these military exercises twice a year, going back to the 1970s. I’ve posted about it several times before.
Sometimes nothing significant happens after the warnings. Sometimes DPRK conducts their own military exercises in response to the US-ROK military exercises.
Sometimes DPRK conducts missile launch tests in response to US-ROK military exercises. If you’ve ever seen western media report something like “North Korea fired a missile into the ocean towards Japan for no reason at all”, it was likely provoked by US-ROK military drills.
The significance of the story currently is that the US military and South Korea military are being antagonistic towards DPRK on September 15. How DPRK will respond is to be determined.
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Something like this?
(Please excuse this brainfart which took 2 seconds of brain processing time)
Precisely.
I’m just waiting to see Russian Revolution: Electric Boogaloo. Now that’ll generate content.