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U.S. and S. Korean Forces Hell-bent on Preparations for War Exercises

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

   Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- The war-thirsty elements of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces and the south Korean forces are nowadays getting overheated in the preparations for Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises while deploying their armed forces for aggression, according to a military source.
    On Feb. 15, Striker unit of the First Brigade of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division was airlifted to Taegu airport and deployed in operational area as an advance party for the war exercises. And on Feb. 19 the Ninth Sapper Battalion of the Third Marine Munitions Division of the Third Expedition of the U.S. Marine Corps arrived in Phohang, getting frantic in perfecting the sapper support system for the joint operation in coordination with a sapper battalion of the First Marine Division of the Marine Corps Command of the south Korean forces.
    A nuclear-powered guided missile submarine anchored at Pusan port of south Korea and nuclear-powered ultra-large aircraft carrier Nimitz and Aegis cruiser, which were rushed to the sea south of Jeju Island, staged an exercise for taking-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft and a targeting exercise in the waters on Feb. 21 and 22.
    Kitty Hawk, an ultra-large aircraft carrier, and Blue Ridge, the U.S. Seventh Fleet command ship, has already anchored at Yokoska and Otaru ports of Japan.
    24 F-16s, which will play a leading role of the air force in the projected war exercises, has been already deployed in the U.S. air force base in south Korea from the U.S. mainland. And F/A-18s, MC-130s and KC-135s flew into south Korea on Feb. 12 and 14.
    B-52s and B-2As deployed in Guam entered into a position of emergency sortie and F-16s and F-15s were deployed in bases of Japan.
    These war planes of different types are every day staging, in coordination with the U.S. Seventh Air Force present in south Korea and the south Korean air force, such actual war exercises as navigation flight, close air support, air battle and striking objects on ground and sea within the system of the projected war exercises.
    The army and people of the DPRK are sharply watching with high vigilance the anti-DPRK joint military exercises of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces and the south Korean forces.