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U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises under Fire

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The United States and south Korea began Ulji Focus Lens-05 joint military exercises in south Korea on Aug. 22 which will last till Sept. 2. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday observes in a signed commentary: The U.S. is getting itself fully ready for another Korean war while pushing forward the reorganization and relocation of its forces according to the operation plan for the invasion of the DPRK and staging joint military exercises with south Korea and Japan one after another. The on-going saber-rattling is, therefore, a preliminary operation to provoke the Korean war of aggression. It goes on:
    The exercises are aimed to round off the preparations for a preemptive attack on the DPRK, ratchet up the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension, hamstring the favorable process of reconciliation and cooperation between the north and the south and pressurize the DPRK by force of arms to meet the unreasonable demands it raised at the six-party talks. Should the U.S. persistently escalate its military provocations and war moves against the DPRK, showing no change in its policy of stifling it as now, the prospect of confidence building between Pyongyang and Washington will be remote and the situation will turn more complicated.
    The reality compels the army and people of the DPRK to heighten vigilance against the U.S. sophism that it would "neither attack nor invade the DPRK" and reinforce its determination to bolster its military deterrence in every way. The U.S. bellicose forces should ponder over the serious consequences to be entailed by their madcap military exercises against the DPRK and immediately stop the Ulji Focus Lens-05 joint military exercises that go against peace and dialogue.