North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper criticized the United States’ ambitions to bring in a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system into South Korea in an editorial on Tuesday.

Accusing the U.S. of trying to “overpower the neighboring big powers” the editorial argued that the move was part of a U.S. military strategy designed to “pressurize potential challengers in the region, China in particular.”

Referring to the recent Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercises, which provoked criticisms from the DPRK, the article further accused the U.S. for exacerbating military tensions on the peninsula.

“It is none other than the U.S. that deployed