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Projected Ulji Focus Lens-04 under Fire

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- The Ulji Focus Lens-04 joint military exercise the United States and south Korea plan to stage from August 23 to September 3 come under fire in a signed commentary of Rodong Sinmun Wednesday. The exercise will draw at least 13,000 U.S. troops stationed in south Korea and south Korean troops and more than 6,000 U.S. troops stationed overseas.
    Dismissing the exercise as a serious military provocation against the DPRK and an intolerable challenge to the Korean nation aspiring after independent reunification, the commentary goes on:
    The projected exercise is a test war and a preliminary war targeted against the DPRK to all intents and purposes.
    The U.S. imperialists' moves to launch a war of aggression against the DPRK have reached a very reckless phase. The Bush bellicose regime is seeking military aggression behind the scene of dialogue. To this end it has pushed ahead with the relocation of U.S. troops in south Korea and their "reduction" and the transfer of its army bases, while introducing there ultra modern weapons and war means without let-up according to the large-scale arms buildup plan calling for spending 13 billion U.S. dollars.
    Recently the U.S. worked out "operation plan 5027-04", an adventurous scenario for a war against the DPRK, to pose an undisguised threat to the DPRK.
    Ulji Focus Lens-04 would render the situation on the Korean peninsula so tense that a war may break out any moment. If the U.S. mounts a preemptive attack on the DPRK, misjudging its peace-loving will as weakness, the DPRK will wipe out the aggressors with the might of ideology, unity and the invincible Songun policy and eliminate all the sources of war on the Korean peninsula.
    If the south Korean authorities cooperate with outside forces and keep committing treacheries against the nation, they will be held wholly responsible for all the ensuing grave consequences.
    The U.S. and the south Korean warlike forces are well advised not to run amuck but cancel at once the plan to stage the provocative war exercise against the DPRK.