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KCNA Slams U.S. for Increasing Military Tension in Korea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is going to launch Foal Eagle joint military exercises and Reception, staging, onward movement and integration (RSOI) in south Korea, defying the demand of the Korean people and the international community for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and a settlement of the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. According to a press report, the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk entered Pusan Port, south Korea, on March 15 with about 70 fighters and 5,500 combatants aboard to participate in an exercise aimed to launch a nuclear war against the north.
    A large-scale exercise of loading and unloading war supplies has been under way at Phyongthaek Port, Kyonggi Province, since March 8 with hundreds of military vehicles, tanks and amphibious armored cars belonging to a flotilla of U.S. marines. The drill participated in by at least 8,000 GIs of U.S. marines from Hawaii and Okinawa will reportedly last until April.
    On March 12 the command of the 8th U.S. Army announced a plan to pay an allowance to the U.S. soldiers in south Korea as an incentive to lengthen the term of their service there.
    Such serious military moves of the U.S. forces in south Korea suggest that the day of the outbreak of a war is drawing near hour by hour in Korea.
    The U.S. has already staged various forms of war maneuvers one after another according to the war scenario based on the doctrine of "a preemptive attack" after shipping into south Korea the latest war hardware tested in the Afghan and Iraqi war. Recently, it conducted even a drill of evacuating families of U.S. servicemen and other Americans, something reminiscent of the eve of the last Korean war.
    It has been a usual practice for the U.S. to cite "threat to security" and "defense" as a pretext for kicking up a war racket but the recent developments have proved this is a sheer lie and the U.S. is chiefly to blame for the crisis.
    The U.S. is hell-bent on the moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK politically, militarily and economically behind the curtain of dialogue for the settlement of the nuclear issue between them, working hard to plug Japan and its other allies.
    It is keen to ignite a war against the DPRK, while working hard to bring back to the era of confrontation the inter-Korean relations favorably developing in the direction of national reconciliation, peace and reunification of the country after the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    The U.S. plans to stage large-scale war exercises through the massive transfer and deployment of its armed forces in its mainland and overseas and the mobilization of all the south Korean forces suggest what a dangerous political and military adventure it is going to make on the Korean peninsula.