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FM Spokesman Assails North-Targeted Military Exercise

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a statement Friday in connection with the "south Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command's" announcement that Ulji-Focus Lens-04 joint military exercise would be staged from August 23 to September 3. The projected exercise is another grave challenge to peace and security on the Korean peninsula as it is a replica of the Team Spirit joint military exercises aimed to examine and improve all aspects of the preparations for a war of aggression against the north, the statement noted, and continued:
    The U.S. has so far pretended to have any intention to seek a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue with the DPRK, asserting whenever an opportunity presented itself that it has no will to invade or attack north Korea and that it pursues no hostile policy toward it. The projected saber-rattling once again proves that all what the U.S. has publicized is nothing but hypocrisy and the Bush administration's reckless strategy of preemptive attack has been put into the phase of implementation after going beyond the phase of discussion.
    The U.S. evermore undisguised moves for war are little short of destroying the basic foundation for the six-party talks to seek a negotiated solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.
    The DPRK will never react to such enemy saber-rattling with such foolish option for disarmament.
    Its army and people will never be browbeaten by the U.S. threat and blackmail but react to its hard-line with a tougher stand.
    Now that the U.S. scenario for a war of aggression against the DPRK has entered the phase of its implementation, the DPRK is left with no option but to increase its war deterrent force both in quality and quantity.
    If the Bush group launches a war, underestimating the will of the DPRK, it will not have even a chance to regret for its rash act.
    The south Korean authorities should bear in mind that they would have to pay dearly for such treacherous acts as joining the U.S. in its north-targeted exercises.