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U.S. and S. Korean Forces Busy with "Ulji Focus Lens"

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

   Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The madcap "Ulji Focus Lens" joint military exercises for aggression that were kicked off by issuing a wartime emergency mobilization order on August 20 are now under way in the land, seas and air of south Korea under the simulated conditions of an actual war, according to a military source.
    On August 22 and 23 the south Korea-U.S. "Combined Forces Command" mobilized U.S. mainland-based transport reinforcements and some support battalions of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces present in south Korea to stage an exercise of speedily transporting war equipment from the depots to the operational theatres. Meanwhile, several army corps units under the third south Korean field army were busy with the drills of carrying out their operational plans and exercises for "commando" operations and chemical warfare.
    Carrier "Blue Ridge", the flagship of the U.S. 7th fleet, anchored off Phyongthaek Port on August 24 to participate in naval war exercise to be staged within the framework of the "Ulji Focus Lens." Carrier "Kitty Hawk" task force is set to get involved in it from the southern tip of Japan.
    The south Korean warmongers mobilized battleships of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd fleets and other flotilla of their navy to stage naval maneuvers combined with the exercise of launching guided missiles and naval bombardment under the simulated conditions of an actual war in the waters off Sokcho, Kangrung, Phohang and Ulsan and Paekryong, Tokjok and Kyokryolbiryol islets in the East and West seas of Korea on August 21 and 23.
    More than 800 fighter bombers, pursuit-assault planes, assault planes, observation planes and armed helicopters of overseas-based flying corps, the flying corps of the U.S. 7th Air Force present in south Korea, three combat squadrons of the south Korean air force and a mixed flying corps were busy with the exercises of air battle, striking targets on the ground, providing close air support and air lifting with the air above south Korea as their operational theatres on August 23 and 27.
    Timed to coincide with the on-going provocative "Ulji Focus Lens," over 10 strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes of different types made shuttle flights in the air over the front area from the east to the west almost every day to spy on all areas of the DPRK.