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Joint Military Drills Staged in Area near MDL

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- It was disclosed that the U.S. troops staged the recent large-scale joint military exercises in the area near the Military Demarcation Line in south Korea, according to a press report. This was disclosed by a person concerned with Thongil News on Mar. 29.
    He referred to the fact that 24 U.S. military vehicles loaded with boxes carrying equipment necessary for the RSOI of the Third Field Duty Support Group of the U.S. Marine Corps in Iwakuni, Japan, moved to the area of Jongok-township, Ryonchon County of Kyonggi Province, on Mar. 27 when the large-scale joint military drills were at their height.
    The unit in charge of the equipment was the 37th Combat Duty Support Detachment belonging to the Fourth Marine Task Force for Air and Ground Battle "formed to fight air and ground battles for a preemptive attack on the enemy in war time," he noted.
    He added that this detachment entered a forefront U.S. military base inside an "off-limits area for civilians" near the MDL after conducting a military drill in the combined drill ground of the U.S. 8th Army in Yongjung sub-county, Phochon County.
    The Ministry of National Defense and the "ROK-U.S. Forces Combined Command" asserted through media that the joint military drills "did not pose any threat to the north as they were just mobile exercises in the rear and routine drills" but the fact proved that the assertion was a lie, he stressed.