The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday denounced the American military build-up plan which shows the US ambition of mounting a preemptive attack on the DPRK.

The plan of deploying a flotilla of the carrier John Stenis in the waters off the Korean peninsula "is arousing caution not only among the Korean people but the rest of the world community as it is aimed to increase the US forces' capability to strike any region of the world including the Korean peninsula and their maneuverability in the event of 'contingency'," the official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary.

The deployment plan was announced on September 23 by Thomas Fargo, commander-in-chief of the US armed forces in the Pacific.

The US has already deployed the striking group led by the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Pacific.

The commentary also said that the US plan to deploy on a permanent base ultra-modern Aegis missile destroyers in the East Sea of Korea, and to deploy "PAC-3" in South Korea in the coming November.

"The DPRK can never overlook these grave military moves," the commentary said, adding that "the US arms build-up indicates that its ambition to bring the DPRK under its control and contain big powers in a bid to establish its political and military domination over the Asian-Pacific region has been carried into extremes."

The commentary said the United States, which talks about seeking a negotiated peaceful solution to the nuclear issue, "is invariably pursuing a foolish aim to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK and put it under its control."

"The DPRK is left with no option but to further increase the self-defensive capability to defend its sovereignty, now that the US does not abandon its hostile policy towards the DPRK but persistently works to put it under its control by force of arms," said the commentary.