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U.S. and S. Korean Forces Stage Joint Air War Maneuvers

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

   Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- The air force of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces and the south Korean air force are these days staging madcap joint aerial war maneuvers targeted against the DPRK, screwing up the tension of the Korean Peninsula, according to a military source.
    On March 19 and 20 they got frantic in the exercises for air-raiding ground targets by turns with the sky above south Korea as their operational theatre after forming a striking group with flying corps of different missions, each made up of 20~30 planes.
    On the same days at least 80 fighter-bombers, assault planes and armed helicopters were keen on close air support and over 170 warplanes on navigation and air combat exercises.
    On March 17 and 18 more than 450 fighter-bombers, assault planes, pursuit-assault planes and gunships of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean forces conducted the frantic combined aerial war maneuvers including detection of air targets, air battle, surprise strike on ground objects, close air support and airlifting operation under the combined command of overseas-based E-3.
    Meanwhile, formations of overseas-based strategic bombers and pursuit-assault planes almost every day staged such madcap maneuvers under the simulated condition of a real war as flying into south Korea in group of two or more planes and returning to their base after dropping bombs, inciting a war atmosphere.
    Timing to coincide with the provocative war exercises, the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean forces sent eight strategic and tactical reconnaissance planes to the sky above the frontline area every day to commit intensive aerial photographing and electronic espionage on the DPRK as a whole.
    The above-said combined air war maneuvers, staged by the war-like forces of the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops and the south Korean military in the wake of the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises, are a very dangerous war gamble designed to mount a surprise preemptive attack on the DPRK in the event of "contingency".
    The U.S. should stop at once the reckless military actions of wrecking peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the south Korean authorities should not join the outsiders in the war maneuvers aimed at doing harm to their fellow countrymen.