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KCNA Denounces Projected Joint Military Manoeuvre

KCNA

  Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- It is reported that the U.S. would stage the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military manoeuvre together with the south Korean army from Aug. 18. The exercise to be staged under the pretexts of "annual exercise for defence" and "computer mock drill" can not but arouse the DPRK's caution as it is targeted against the DPRK in every aspect.
  The large-scale war exercise is to be launched to get on the nerves of the dialogue partner when the 6-way talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is on the order of the day. This is a criminal move to chill the atmosphere of dialogue.
  With nothing can the U.S. cover up the provocative and aggressive nature of "Ulji Focus Lens".
  Through these joint war exercises staged in recent years the U.S. sought to "increase the capability of common action" of the U.S. and south Korean armies and "round off the joint operation procedure and commanding system" and helped them get mastery of all combat methods applicable in case of an emergency on the Korean peninsula.
  The joint military drill is an escalation of the U.S. dangerous military moves to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula by military means. The U.S. worked out a plan for bolstering the U.S. troops in south Korea and the "operation plan 5030," a war scenario against the DPRK. Recently it staged a military exercise in south Korea after bringing there some of the elite combat unit of the U.S. Army equipped with ultra-modern precision weapons, the vanguard for a rapid mobile warfare. The "Ulji Focus Lens" drill to be launched in the wake of these military moves is aimed to militarily threaten and put pressure on the DPRK and, at the same time, "examine the U.S. forces' combat capability" in anticipation of the second Korean war. Dialogue and war can not go together.
  The DPRK is fully ready for both dialogue and war with the U.S.
  If the U.S. truly wants dialogue with the DPRK it should drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and make a switchover in its policy and immediately cancel the plan for the war exercise rattling the nerves of the dialogue partner.