Minju Joson on "Foal Eagle" exercise
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- The danger of armed conflict is growing owing to the "Foal Eagle" exercise which will continue for nearly one month, involving over 200,000-strong forces including the U.S. troops stationed in South Korea, U.S. reinforcements from overseas, and the South Korean army as well as latest military equipment.
Minju Joson today says this in a signed commentary.
The "Foal Eagle" exercise, which begins today, is a war rehearsal to invade the north to all intents and purposes. The U.S. imperialists' launching of the exercise is an open challenge to the Korean nation and the world peace-loving people the commentary says, and goes on:
No one can vouch that the U.S. imperialists will not make a preemptive attack on the DPRK while launching the exercise involving huge forces enough to go to war.
It is as clear as noonday that in case the "Foal Eagle" exercise leads to a war against the DPRK a nuclear war breaks out and all the Korean people in the north and the south can not escape nuclear holocaust. At this critical juncture the entire Korean nation in the north and the south and abroad should turn out in the anti-U.S., anti-war and anti-nuclear struggle to save the destiny of the country and the nation from the crisis. The South Korean warlike forces should stop at once their treacherous moves to have recourse to the outside forces to make a showdown with the fellow countrymen, mindful that joining in the U.S. moves to provoke a war against the north is an unpardonable crime of inflicting nuclear disaster upon the nation.
It is a miscalculation for the U.S. imperialists to try to invade the north with the exercise as a momentum.
The U.S. imperialists and the South Korean warhawks should stop the "Foal Eagle" exercise at once, mindful of the consequences to be entailed by their moves to provoke a war against the north.
