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Projected U.S.-led Joint Naval Exercises under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- The United States will stage PSI joint naval exercises in the waters off Japan in the East Sea of Korea from October 13 with seven countries including Japan involved, according to foreign press reports.
    This is a grave military provocation to the DPRK as it is one more expression of the hostile policy pursued by the U.S. and Japan toward the DPRK. Minju Joson Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The projected maneuvers self-expose their invariable sinister intention to isolate and suffocate the DPRK militarily.
    The military exercises to be staged by the U.S. against the DPRK with its satellite forces involved at a politically sensitive time when confidence building among dialogue partners is more urgently required than ever before go to prove that the U.S. ballyhooed "dialogue" and "improved relations" are nothing but sophism intended to deceive the DPRK.
    The U.S. is talking about "peaceful settlement" of the nuclear issue and "improved relations" with the DPRK but it is, in actuality, more interested in boosting the "U.S.-Japan alliance" aimed at stifling the DPRK militarily.
    The Japanese reactionaries are also pushing ahead with increased fever with the policy of militarist overseas expansion pursuant to the U.S. deep-rooted hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The joint naval maneuvers projected by the U.S. and Japan under the pretext of "preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" are aimed to ensure the operation of the U.S. forces and the Japan "Self-Defence Forces" for naval blockade against the DPRK at a high level in the event of contingency and round off the capabilities of the armed forces of the two countries for joint military actions, in particular.
    The above-said U.S.-Japan joint naval exercises can be interpreted as part of the preparations for the second Korean war and its execution.
    If the U.S. and Japan choose a military option at any cost contrary to the unanimous expectation and desire of the international community, the army and people of the DPRK will take proper retaliatory actions against them.