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U.S. Forces Side's Provocations Protested

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

   Panmunjom, July 10 (KCNA) -- Talks between a senior colonel of the DPRK military and a colonel of the U.S. military were held at Panmunjom on Thursday at the proposal made by the DPRK side on its own initiative.
    At the talks Senior Colonel Kwak Yong Hun of the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army lodged a strong protest with the U.S. forces side against such provocative acts as obstructing the performance of duties by the guard personnel of the DPRK side in the Panmunjom conference room area and aggravating the situation in the area perpetrated everyday and held it accountable for this.
    The U.S. forces side again committed such despicable and base acts everyday despite the fact that the DPRK side drew attention to the dozens of provocations committed by the guard personnel of the U.S. forces side in a telephone message dated June 11, he noted, terming this a wanton violation of the armistice agreement calling for security and order in the conference room area and the agreement between both sides.
    The DPRK side warned at the talks that even the slightest provocation against the other party in the Panmunjom conference room area, the scene of acute military confrontation, where servicemen of both sides which are technically at war are leveling their guns at each other may lead to an armed conflict any moment.
    The U.S. forces side, however, is persistently shutting its eyes to this reality and fostering and conniving at the provocations, it noted, adding that this is aimed at sparking off again such shocking cases in this area as the "Panmunjom incident" in the 1970s and "shooting incident " in the 1980s in a bid to drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension.
    He went on to say: While paying lip-service to the improved DPRK-U.S. relations, the U.S. forces side is nowadays staging war exercises aimed at attacking the DPRK in the land, sea and air almost every day and arming the south Korean puppet forces with the latest war means and instigating them to the confrontation with the north. Timed to coincide with these moves, it is committing ceaseless provocations. The Korean People's Army is following the U.S. forces side's military movements with heightened vigilance.
    The U.S. forces side, while acknowledging the gravity of the cases raised by the DPRK side, informed it that it would conduct Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises from August 18 to 22, contrary to the nature of the talks.
    The DPRK side strongly urged the U.S. forces side to cancel the exercises at once, denouncing such action as a criminal act as it will escalate the tension on the Korean Peninsula.
    He urged the U.S. forces side to face up to the present reality and behave with discretion, declaring that the KPA would never pardon anyone infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK even a bit.