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U.S. Persistently Increases Tension in Korea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces in south Korea have started Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers and Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration exercises with south Korean troops in defiance of strong protest of the Korean people and other people across the world. The rehearsals are, both in name and in reality, extremely adventurous and dangerous war exercises aimed at launching a forestalling attack on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    It is well known that the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the United States has not yet been solved and the bilateral relations have nosedived due to the latter's unreasonable practice.
    The United States, while giving lip-service to a negotiated and peaceful solution to the nuclear issue, has uninterruptedly staged reckless military maneuvers. It indicates that the United States has never given up its plan to stifle the DPRK by force of arms.
    The U.S. policy of aggression of Korea, which began with the intrusion of the warship General Sherman into a river of Korea in 1866, has become all the more pronounced through centuries.
    Especially, the Korean war (June 1950-July 1953) the United States unleashed against the two-year-old DPRK served as a clear evidence laying bare the true colors of the United States as the wrecker of the peace on the Korean peninsula.
    Since they occupied south Korea after World War II, painting themselves as "liberators", the U.S. imperialists have made every possible effort to ignite a war in Korea to reduce the Korean people to their slaves.
    The military incursions into the northern half of Korea committed by the U.S. imperialists for war preparations in Juche 38 (1949) alone. totaled 2,617.
    By them a three-year war was imposed upon Korea, which was building a democratic country in peace.
    After the war they, with the invariable aggressive design, persistently created a danger of war and enhanced tension on the Korean peninsula by perpetrating such provocations as the EC-121 reconnaissance plane incident, the Pueblo armed spy ship incident and the Panmunjom incident. They frantically staged Team Spirit large-scale joint maneuvers against the DPRK with the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops and huge combat and technical equipment every year from 1976 to 1993, except 1992.
    In recent years, they have tried hard to carry out such nuclear war plans against the DPRK as "Operation Plan 5030" through various kinds of military exercises including Ulji Focus Lens and Iron Atef.
    All the facts clearly prove that the United States is the wrecker of the peace on the Korean peninsula and the very one responsible for war and tension.