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U.S. Urged to Withdraw Projected Joint Military Exercises

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army today gave an answer to the question put by KCNA as regards a telephone message sent to the KPA side by the U.S. side on March 9 to the effect that it would stage large-scale Foal Eagle joint military exercises and reception, staging, onward movement and integration (RSOI) in south Korea from March 22 to 28. The Panmunjom Mission in its telephone message disclosed the gravity and dangerous nature of the projected military exercises and strongly demanded it immediately withdraw the plan, the spokesman noted, and continued:
    Though the US is talking about a negotiated and peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., it is further intensifying than ever before its moves to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    Some time ago, the U.S. staged a joint military exercise in the area close to the Military Demarcation Line aimed to mobilize its aggressor troops in and around south Korea to an actual war in accordance with the "New Operation Plan 5026" worked out on the basis of the experience gained in the Iraqi war and in line with transfer of the U.S. military bases and relocation of its armed forces.
    On Jan. 19 it even staged an emergency evacuation exercise under the simulated conditions of evacuating families of the U.S. troops and Americans in south Korea to other countries in case of emergency on the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. side committed over 400 cases of aerial espionage against the DPRK by mobilizing modern operational equipment this year alone.
    All these facts prove that the U.S. practically confirmed the already worked out operation plans for invasion and completely wound up its preparations for a new Korean war through its arms buildup and transfer, deployment and relocation of its forces and mobile exercises aimed to increase their combat capability.
    It is as clear as noonday that such joint military exercises may quickly go over to an offensive operation against the north.
    Foal Eagle and "RSOI" are extremely provocative war moves to launch a preemptive strike at the DPRK.
    If the U.S. sincerely hopes for detente and peace on the Korean peninsula, it should stop at once the arms buildup, aerial espionage and provocative exercises in gross violation of the Preamble, Paragraph 13 d and Paragraph 16 of the Armistice Agreement.
    The Korean People's Army will follow with high vigilance the U.S. moves to provoke a war and get fully ready to take corresponding countermeasures, if necessary, he warned.