The difficult security situation on the Korean Peninsula is caused by US actions, Washington should abandon its hostile approach in relations with the DPRK, Foreign Ministry said in a report published Wednesday on its website.

"It is a universal knowledge that the failure of the situation on the Korean Peninsula to easily be out of the whirlwind of aggravated tension just lies in the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK," the North's foreign ministry said in an English statement.

Pyongyang also condemned the United States for carrying out "joint war drills, claiming that the move has posed "a grave threat to the security" of the North.

Pyongyang recalled a statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who said that sanctions against the DPRK would only exacerbate the situation. "The U.S. would be well-advised to halt its military threat to our country and withdraw, before anything else, its hostile policy towards the DPRK rather than publicizing the so-called 'diplomatic solution' and 'dialogue," the DPRK Foreign Ministry said in a statement.