Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), said on Thursday that the U.S., Japan and South Korea have formed a "dangerous triangular military alliance" against it.

According to an article carried by the newspaper, the joint military exercises between the U.S. and Japan and between the U.S. and South Korea staged on the Korean Peninsula and in its surrounding waters from late October to early November shows that the alliance exists and runs in actuality even though it was not formally declared.

The U.S. is trying to use Japan and South Korea as "cannon fodder and shock brigades" in case of emergency on the Korean Peninsula, the article said.

It is the U.S. intention to establish its hegemony with ease in the Asia-Pacific region by using its allies, it added.

The U.S.-led triangular military alliance is targeted against the DPRK, said the article, and the "military conspiracy" will lead to a touch-and-go situation on the Korean Peninsula.