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KCNA Raps at U.S.-South Korea Reckless War Exercises

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces and the south Korean army would reportedly stage the "reception, staging, onward movement and integration exercise"(RSOI) and Foal Eagle joint war exercise from March 22 to 28. This is a grave development as it will escalate the situation on the Korean peninsula where tensions still persist owing to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the United States.
    RSOI which involves a transfer and deployment of huge U.S. forces and a drill for operational command over the south Korean forces and a field mobile exercise Foal Eagle to be staged in anticipation of "contingency on the Korean peninsula" are to all intents and purposes war exercises under the simulated conditions of a real preemptive attack on the DPRK.
    Last year, too, the U.S. staged war exercises under different codenames including Ulji Focus Lens joint military exercise as well as the above-said war maneuvers, thus extremely aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula and throwing a big hurdle in the process of improving the inter-Korean relations.
    The United States and the south Korean authorities tried to conceal the nature and aim of the war exercises every year under the signboards of "annual ones" and "defensive ones". But all the developments proved that such assertions are no more than a red herring to cover up the U.S. policy of aggression against the DPRK and the war moves of the south Korean bellicose forces.
    What merits a more serious attention is that these war exercises will take place in the wake of the second round of the six-way talks for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    This indicates that though the U.S. talks about the negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between them, it is, in fact, still seeking nuclear confrontation only behind the scene of dialogue.
    War exercises and dialogue are incompatible.
    The international community is concerned about the fact that the U.S. is set to stage joint military exercises by mobilizing forces huge enough to unleash a war at a time when it has entered into the phase of finally winding up the preparations for a war against the DPRK while massively deploying in south Korea the latest weapons tested in the Iraqi war.
    No one can vouch that the U.S.-led large-scale joint military exercises will not go over to a war against the DPRK.
    The army and the people of the DPRK neither want a war nor avoid it. They are fully combat-ready to react against the enemy confrontation with confrontation.
    The U.S. should not misinterpret our warnings but stop at once the adventurous war exercises.
    The south Korean bellicose forces would be well advised to refrain from going against the aspiration of the fellow countrymen and the trend of the times toward national cooperation and reconciliation by joining in the war exercises contrary to the spirit of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and deliberately throwing hurdles in the way of warming the inter-Korean relations.