North Korea does not want the situation in the Korean Peninsula region to escalate, but is forced to take countermeasures to maintain a military balance, Kim Jong Un said, as cited by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Axar.az reports that on February 8, he visited the Defense Ministry on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army. According to Kim Jong Un, "It is the correct answer to tell those who worship the predominance of power with the language they can understand," the agency says.

"He clarified that the DPRK does not want unnecessary tension in the regional situation but will take sustained countermeasures to ensure the regional military balance out of the aspiration for preventing the outbreak of a new war and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula," KCNA reports.

The North Korean leader noted that the US nuclear strategic means constantly deployed on the Korean peninsula, "the U.S.-led bilateral and multiple nuclear war simulation exercises staged on the level of actual war," "the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance system established under the U.S. regional military bloc scenario and the formation of NATO of Asian version as its axis are inviting military imbalance on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, causing a basic factor in building a new conflicting structure and raising a grave challenge to the security environment of our state," the agency says.

Kim Jong Un pointed out the need to further raise the combat capability of the KPA to be able to respond to any changes in the security situation.

The North Korean leader stressed that "the black shadows of the U.S. which is standing unfailingly behind the world's big and small disputes and tragedies of bloodshed at present prove that the line of our Party and government aspiring after the building of an unlimited defense capability is most just," the agency says. In this respect the North Korean leader mentioned "a series of new plans for rapidly bolstering all deterrence including nuclear forces," KCNA says.