Projected U.S.-S. Korean joint military drills under fire
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Tuesday in a statement warned that the U.S. would be held wholly accountable for the disastrous consequences to be entailed by its planned reckless large-scale joint military exercises in South Korea.
To be involved in the Foal Eagle and Rsoi exercises that will be staged from March 4 to April 2 are at least 200,000 troops including the U.S. Forces in South Korea, the South Korean army and the U.S. reinforcements and a lot of military equipment including an aircraft carrier.
The spokesman said:
The U.S. has rendered the situation on the Korean Peninsula extremely tense after spawning the nuclear issue there. It is now going to stage large-scale nuclear war exercises in South Korea under the simulated conditions of an actual war, while massively bolstering its troops there. All this is part of its premeditated military operation to stifle the DPRK with preemptive nuclear strikes and its escalation to all intents and purposes.
The dangerous situation and the escalation of the tensions on the Korean Peninsula clearly show from where the U.S.-publicized real threat and blackmail come.
The U.S. military strike against Iraq is just a matter of time.
The ceaseless sabre-rattling staged by the U.S. in South Korea against this backdrop is creating an extremely tense situation where it may make a preemptive strike at the DPRK any time.
The reality goes to clearly prove that the U.S. talk about "peaceful settlement" of the nuclear issue is no more than a broad hoax to deceive the world public opinion.
This compels the army and the people of the DPRK to keep themselves in full readiness by using all means and possibilities necessary to cope with it.
The South Korean warhawks should ponder over such acts of treachery as hamstringing the efforts to implement the June 15 Joint Declaration and joining moves the foreign forces in their to stifle Koreans by force.
