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"Ulji Focus Lens" Joint Military Exercises under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises now under way in south Korea are war maneuvers against peace in view of their nature, contents and purpose as they are designed to implement the U.S. military policy aimed to put the whole of Korea under its control and make a breakthrough towards carrying out its Asia strategy with Korea as a springboard.
    Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article.
    It is entirely attributable to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK that the two sides have been technically at war on the Korean Peninsula for more than five decades, the article notes, and continues:
    If the U.S. continues rushing headlong into a war, staging military exercises against the DPRK, this will entail unpredictably catastrophic consequences.
    The six-party talks without the U.S. drop of its hostile policy toward the DPRK would be meaningless. This is not worth even a passing note. The U.S. is sadly mistaken if it calculates it can reap any fruit at the six-party talks without giving up its hostile policy toward the DPRK. The grave military threat posed by the U.S. to the DPRK by staging large-scale war drills in south Korea would only put the six-party talks at peril.
    The U.S. would be well advised to stop its poor farce aimed at playing down or covering up the criminal nature of the DPRK-targeted war maneuvers with a veil of "peace". No sleight of hand seeking a sinister purpose can ever work on the DPRK which loves justice. The "Ulji Focus Lens" compels the DPRK to suspect the ulterior aim sought by the U.S. in its loudmouthed "negotiated settlement of issues" and "confidence-building".
    Talking only will not help build confidence. Only when the U.S. gives up its hostile policy toward the DPRK, its dialogue partner, is it possible to wipe out distrust and antagonism between the DPRK and the U.S. and build confidence. Now that the U.S. keeps pursuing its hostile policy toward its dialogue partner, frantically staging war drills against it, the DPRK is left with no option but to take strong countermeasures, different from the stand for dialogue it has maintained so far. This is a legitimate exercise of its sovereign right. It is the DPRK's mode of counteraction to be ready both for dialogue and confrontation.