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Key Resolve and Foal Eagle Joint Military Exercises Begin in S. Korea

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

   Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist bellicose aggressor forces and south Korean forces started Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises for aggression on Mar. 2, according to a military source.
    More than 12 000 U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in south Korea have been ordered to be combat ready and over 6 000 U.S. troops were deployed in forefront bases in south Korea after being transferred from their overseas bases. In another development, more than 9 000 have been placed on alert in waters.
    On Feb. 28 Nimitz entered Pusan Port in the wake of the entry of Ohio equipped with more than 150 Tomahawk cruise missiles into it on Feb. 20. A landing craft entered Pusan Port on Mar. 1. On Feb. 26 a transport ship fully loaded with marine equipment entered Jinhae Port.
    Nimitz's entry into Pusan Port was timed to coincide with the entry of guided missile destroyers into Phyongthaek Port and Chaffee and John S. McCain into Tonghae Port.
    F-15 and F-16 fighter bombers, F/A-18, MC-130 and KC-135s were deployed in Osan air force base and airfields in Kunsan in south Korea after being transferred from the U.S. mainland and its overseas bases.
    The naval and air forces of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are keeping themselves ready to participate in the exercises after being deployed in waters and areas around the Korean Peninsula including Japan and Guam.
    Along with such huge aggressor troops the three services and marines of south Korea, the "Homeland Defence Reserve Forces" and police, administrative organs, and major military and civilian enterprises there have been placed on alert at the same time.
    The above-said exercises aim at the rapid deployment of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and south Korean forces, the formation of combined forces and commando operations against the DPRK for another Korean war.
    An extremely dangerous situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the frantic war moves of the U.S. imperialists and south Korean forces.