North Korea: No one can deny our sovereign right to launch a satellite. Calls South Exercises With US "Nuclear War Exercises"
The North's statement also claims the US “built bio-chemical weapon laboratories in South Korea, Ukraine, and other regions".
PYONGYANG - North Korean state news agency KCNA released multiple statements regarding the attempted satellite launch by the North, and the joint exercises being carried out by South Korea and the United States, which it calls “nuclear war exercises”.