North Korea has said it would strengthen its atomic arsenal in an angry response to upcoming joint US-South Korea military exercises which the communist state denounced as nuclear war games.
The North justified its possession of nuclear weapons as establishing a balance of power to prevent a nuclear holocaust, ahead of the joint was games in South Korea starting Saturday.
"The exercises will be nuclear war exercises aimed to invade the North to all intents and purposes in view of their nature, scope and contents," a foreign ministry spokesman told the official Korean Central News Agency.
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A US naval battle group led by the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier arrived on Monday in Busan, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Seoul, to take part in the exercises.
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