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Rodong Sinmun Demands Halt to Projected Joint Military Maneuvers

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

   Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean authorities should unconditionally cancel their planned reckless joint military maneuvers against the DPRK if they truly hail the trend of reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula and expect its smooth development.
    Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The DPRK-targeted joint military exercises staged by the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces in south Korea every year have been a main factor of threatening the peace on the Korean Peninsula and escalating the confrontation and tension on it.
    It is impossible to terminate the military confrontation, defuse tension and eliminate the danger of war from the Korean Peninsula unless those DPRK-targeted joint military exercises are brought to an end.
    The U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces' projected RSOI and Foal Eagle are typical anti-DPRK saber-rattling.
    These war maneuvers will involve tens of thousands of the U.S. imperialist aggression troops and ultra-modern war hardware including a nuclear powered carrier and Stealth fighter-bombers that earned an ill-fame in battle fields of war of aggression in Iraq and various other parts of the world. These war exercises will be expected to be of more provocative nature than any previous ones as main emphasis will be put on offensive exercises including landing, river-crossing and striking targets in the depth.
    If the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces stage such provocative large-scale joint military maneuvers, they will saliently reveal their hostility towards the DPRK and attempt to invade it.
    Dialogue and war exercises can never go together. It is hard to expect any success at a dialogue under the situation where people are disturbed by gunfire during DPRK-targeted war maneuvers. This is clearly evidenced by what they experienced in the past. The projected reckless anti-DPRK joint military exercises would only result in disturbing the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, driving again the inter-Korean relations to a crisis and fanning up the atmosphere of war.