"Russia supported Pyongyang's call on the international community to oppose the provocations of the United States and its satellites, which, by their aggressive actions ... escalate the situation on the Korean Peninsula, bring it to an extremely dangerous brink and force the DPRK to take reasonable countermeasures, "TASS reports his words.
Earlier, the rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that about 800 thousand residents of the DPRK expressed a desire to enter military service to fight the United States.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces reported that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and the US Air Force conducted joint exercises with the participation of combat aircraft because of the DPRK's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.