North Korean media said Saturday that no one has the right to say whether the regime is right or wrong if it decides to hold a military parade just one day before the opening of the PyeongChang Olympics.

The North's ruling Workers' Party's newspaper the Rodong Sinmun made the rebuke to criticism of the anticipated event from other countries in an op-ed.

The article said that events marking the North Korean military's founding anniversary reflect the wishes of the military and the people to meaningfully celebrate the occasion. 

The paper rhetorically questioned whether South Korea would not hold its Armed Forces Day events on October first if North Korea requested it not to do so citing its nationally important day on October tenth which is the founding anniversary of the Workers' Party.

Seoul's Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said last week that North Korea is likely to hold a military parade on an "intimidating" scale on the eve of the PyeongChang Olympics.  

The broadcaster CNN previously reported that the parade is expected to include dozens of intercontinental-range Hwasong-15 missiles, which Pyongyang test-fired for the first time in late November.