North Korea said on Saturday that no other choice but to continue building his defenses. Pyongyang has accused the United States and South Korea of pushing the Korean Peninsula toward war scenarios, reports "Reuters".
"The DPRK will further strengthen its practical efforts to deter the military threat of hostile forces and maintain the balance of power in the region," an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman told state news agency KCNA.
The speaker accused Washington and Seoul of staging "various types of military plots more than 20 times" this year, leaving Pyongyang with no option but to diligently deter the threat of a nuclear war.
In a separate statement, North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, condemned the UN secretary general's recent criticism of the nation's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile and said the weapons test was about " self-defense".
On Thursday, North Korea conducted the test of a massive new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile called the Hwasong-19.
The launch came shortly after the country began sending troops to help Russia's war in Ukraine, prompting swift condemnation from Washington and its allies in South Korea, Japan and Europe, as well as the UN secretary general.
Militaries in South Korea and Japan tracked the missile's flight deep into space before it fell into the ocean between Japan and Russia.
On Friday, the South Korean and US air forces conducted the first-ever joint live-fire drills involving the Global Hawk and Reaper drones, the South Korean air force said.