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Launch of U.S.-South Korea "Ulji Focus Lens" Joint Military Exercises under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The United States together with the south Korean war-like forces launched the large-scale "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises. This is a grave challenge to the DPRK, its dialogue partner, and war moves to bar the situation on the Korean Peninsula from improving and escalate military confrontation and tension.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The warmongers are keen to cover up the danger and provocative nature of the war exercises, asserting that they are "computer mock exercises" and "annual drills." But these exercises are, to all intents and purposes, maneuvers for a war of aggression against the DPRK in the light of the background against which they were kicked off and the contents of the operations.
    What the U.S. seeks through the "Ulji Focus Lens" is to verify the effectiveness of the moves it has so far stepped up to bolster its aggression forces and reorganize them in terms of operation and round off combat command and operation system.
    The U.S. is staging madcap "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises with huge forces and up-to-date war hardware involved though the DPRK and the U.S. are in the process of the six-party talks. This is clear evidence that the U.S. is making the start of a war against the north an established fact and working hard to carry out its scenario.
    The U.S. can never evade the responsibility for having strained the situation on the peninsula, swimming against the trend of the times quite contrary to its promise and deliberately thrown obstacles in the way of finding a solution to the nuclear issue and developing the inter-Korean relations.
    South Korea's participation in the exercises is an anachronistic behavior as it runs counter to the demand and interests common to the nation and requirements of the June 15 era of reunification and adversely affects the inter-Korean relations.
    The peace-loving DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to the reckless moves of the U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces to threaten peace on the peninsula and ignite a nuclear war.
    The U.S. would be well advised to pay heed to the DPRK's warning and behave with discretion and stop at once the ongoing war exercises targeted against the DPRK.