North Korea will continue to conduct ballistic missile launch exercises in response to ongoing U.S. – South Korean joint military drills, Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), reported on Friday.

The article defended the legitimacy of early March’s ballistic rocket-launch drill, arguing that no one has the “right to denounce” the drill as it is “normal training” responding to the “nuclear war moves of the enemies including the U.S.”

“Our Strategic Force staged a ballistic rocket-launching drill in our own territory to crush the U.S. escalating nuclear threat and blackmail,” Rodong Sinmun said.

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