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KPA Panmunjom Mission Issues Statement

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

   Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Senior colonel-level talks between the militaries of the DPRK and the U.S. were held at Panmunjom on Friday at the request of the DPRK side.
    At the talks the Korean People's Army side strongly protested and denounced the U.S. forces side for officially announcing its plan to stage "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises in south Korea from August 20 and notified it of the statement of the KPA Panmunjom Mission clarifying the stand of the army of the DPRK to strongly react to it. The statement says:
    Despite a warning issued by the DPRK side through a statement of the chief of the KPA Panmunjom Mission on July 13 the U.S. military is set to stage the above-said military exercises to gratify its military ambition.
    This clearly indicates that the U.S. is not concerned for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula at all and does not want the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula nor detente and lasting peace on it.
    At a time when there prevails an urgent situation where huge armed forces of the other belligerent party may come in attack on the DPRK, pursuant to the plan for war exercises of the U.S. military, the KPA responsible for the security of the country cannot remain a passive onlooker to it, doing nothing.
    The KPA will actively put into practice its earlier statement that it will do all it can to round off the powerful striking means to cope with the large-scale war maneuvers to be staged against the DPRK.
    The U.S. will be held wholly responsible for the catastrophic impact the above-said saber rattling will have on the implementation of the Fe.13 agreement and the six-party talks.
    It is our hope that south Korea will behave with discretion, bearing in mind that should it drive its soldiers as bullet shields for the U.S. forces as it did during the last Korean war, yielding to the U.S. demand, Koreans will suffer again the shameful disaster of a fratricidal war.