This photo shows a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet taking off from an air base in Gunsan, provided by the Defense Daily, Feb. 19, 2024. Yonhap

North Korea's state media warned Sunday any U.S. military reinforcements in the event of a war will be "wiped out," as it took issue with Washington's additional deployment of stealth fighter jets to Japan earlier this month.

A commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency criticized the recent U.S. deployment of a squadron of F-35B fighters to an air base in Iwakuni, Japan, accusing Washington of increasing uncertainties for a nuclear war.

"The additional deployment of offensive war reinforcements to cope with contingency in the Korean peninsula is hourly increasing the unpredictability of actual armed conflict and a nuclear war," it said. "The U.S. desperate moves of military adventurism ... provide the DPRK with reasonable justification and the urgent need to give tougher warning of action."

DPRK stands for the North's official name — the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"The U.S. anti-communist outposts ... are within the constant sighting and striking range of the DPRK's indefinite forces," it said. "Any war reinforcements of the U.S. will be completely contained and wiped out." (Yonhap)