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Joint Military Maneuvers in MDL Area

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. troops in south Korea and the south Korean army stage joint military maneuvers in the area of the Military Demarcation Line, according foreign news reports. The field maneuvers dubbed Iron Artep which began last week will last till March 5, they said.
    The war exercises now under way in shooting ranges in the area south of the Demilitarized Zone involved the U.S. Second Infantry Division, military vehicles, helicopters and huge other military equipment as well as the south Korean army. The current war gamble includes exercises of breaking through hurdles, river-crossing, rescuing and hurling reinforcement units, they said.
    The arrogant outrage of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities who are staging the war exercises in the area of the MDL at a time when the six-way talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue are held touches off serious apprehensions of the whole world.