According to Yonhap News Agency on November 2, Kim Jong-sik, the first deputy head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a statement on the 2nd denouncing the recent demonstration of integrated nuclear and conventional weapons between South Korea and the US. According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, during the conversation, Kim Jong-sik mentioned the South Korean military chess exercise codenamed “Mace,” saying that the exercise was entirely aimed at “using nuclear weapons against North Korea” and was a “preview of an extremely vicious nuclear war.” He said the exercise “shows that America's ambition to use nuclear weapons to stifle North Korea has not changed, and its danger is increasing.”

According to Yonhap News Agency on November 2, Kim Jong-sik, the first deputy head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a statement on the 2nd denouncing the recent demonstration of integrated nuclear and conventional weapons between South Korea and the US. According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, during the conversation, Kim Jong-sik mentioned the South Korean military chess exercise codenamed “Mace,” saying that the exercise was entirely aimed at “using nuclear weapons against North Korea” and was a “preview of an extremely vicious nuclear war.” He said the exercise “shows that America's ambition to use nuclear weapons to stifle North Korea has not changed, and its danger is increasing.”