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Spokesman of Foreign Ministry Lambastes Joint Military Exercises

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

   Pyongyang, March 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA on Monday as regards the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises launched by the U.S. and south Korea:
    The U.S. and the south Korean bellicose forces started the above-said military exercises throughout south Korea on March 2 despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, thus rendering the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension.
    Involved there are the U.S. forces present in south Korea and forces from its mainland and the south Korean forces and latest military hardware including the nuclear-powered ultra-large carrier Nimitz and nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine Ohio of the U.S. Navy. They are, to all intents and purposes, maneuvers for a nuclear war to seize the DPRK by force of arms in light of their scale and nature.
    The U.S. kicked off the nuclear war maneuvers against its dialogue partner though it has talked about a "peaceful solution of the nuclear issue" and the "establishment of a peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula." This is a clear indication that the U.S. is invariably sticking to its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK by force.
    Such nuclear threat and blackmail do not work on the DPRK but will only put a brake on the process of the denuclearization of the peninsula.
    The army and people of the DPRK are following with the highest vigilance the military attempt of the U.S. to gravely threaten the sovereignty of the DPRK and take necessary countermeasures including those to further bolster up all its deterrent forces.