State media in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday said the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are "making a nuclear war against the DPRK a fait accompli."

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) made the remarks in a commentary titled "Truth of Dangerous Trip for Nuclear War Disclosed" to slam ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol's visit to the U.S. and a joint declaration reached by the two countries' presidents.

The article said Yoon and U.S. President Joe Biden regarded the proposal for raising the practicality of the "extended deterrence" as the main topic for discussion and "plotted the issue of strengthening conspiracy against the DPRK." The two sides announced the Washington Declaration and issued a joint statement.

According to the Washington Declaration, the U.S. will upgrade what it calls "extended deterrence" which it provides to the ROK, including enhanced consultation over a nuclear crisis.

The declaration also reveals that the two countries will establish a new Nuclear Consultative Group, expand the U.S. regular visibility of strategic assets, including a strategic nuclear submarine, to the Korean Peninsula and increase military exercises and training activities to intensify "extended deterrence."

The ROK-U.S. joint statement documents a strategic cybersecurity cooperation framework between the two countries, confirms speeding up trilateral cooperation among the U.S. , the ROK and Japan and a real-time sharing of information on the DPRK as well as regular military drills for more effectively "deterring and responding to nuclear and missile threats of the DPRK."

This is "absolutely identical with a dangerous nuclear war plot putting up the signboard of security," reads the article.

The article noted that Yoon's visit to the U.S. "reconfirms the hostile intention" of the U.S. and the ROK towards the DPRK. "It shows the DPRK needs neither hesitate nor stop even a little and even a moment to become stronger and more thoroughly prepared," the article added.

(Cover: Protesters wearing masks of U.S. President Joe Biden and ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol at a rally to oppose the visit of Yoon to the United States in Seoul, ROK, April 25, 2023. /CFP)