March 8 (Bloomberg) — North Korea said its military is ready to “blow up” any aggressors in response to U.S.-South Korea joint military maneuvers that the communist country condemned as “nuclear war exercises.” North Korea’s armed forces “should keep themselves fully ready to go into action in order to blow up the citadel of aggressors,” the country’s Supreme Command said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The U.S.- South Korea drills are raising tension on the Korean peninsula that “a war may break out any time,” the statement said.