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Immediate Halt to Joint Military Exercises for Aggression Demanded

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

   Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army released a statement on Monday denouncing the criminal Ulji Freedom Guardian south Korea-U.S. joint military exercises that kicked off today.
    The statement recalled that the KPA side had already reminded the U.S. forces side that the above-said joint military exercises are a challenge to the Korean Armistice Agreement and dangerous acts of rendering the situation on the Korean Peninsula extremely tense and strongly demanded it cancel the projected reckless war maneuvers.
    This notwithstanding, the U.S. forces side started the joint military exercises, defying the KPA side's just demand, the statement said, and went on:
    The joint military exercises launched according to a new war scenario of the U.S. military are new war maneuvers to invade the north as they are aimed at boosting the ground operation capability by using troops of the south Korean puppet army as bullet-shields in "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula and raising the effect of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces' medium-and long-range precision strikes and rapid task strikes at the DPRK's strategic bases from the sea and the air.
    Recently the U.S. ruling quarters remaining hostile to the DPRK and the Lee Myung Bak group driving the inter-Korean relations to a collapse and the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a touch-and-go situation, ignorant of political and military affairs, are kicking off war hysteria, crying out for the "tightened south Korea-U.S. alliance" to cope with the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK and "prompt and overwhelming firepower strikes" and "preemptive strikes." These facts go to prove that the U.S. and south Korean conservative forces are keen to ignite a war in Korea at any cost.
    The U.S. and south Korean bellicose forces are staging the above-said joint exercises for a preemptive strike at the DPRK at a time when the conservative U.S. military is bringing to naught a series of positive changes being effected in the process for the denuclearization after branding the DPRK as "a rogue state" once again. The KPA side can not remain a passive onlooker to this.
    It will deal a resolute counterblow at the crafty trick of the U.S. to stifle the DPRK militarily behind the scene, while talking about "the realization of the denuclearization."
    Whoever threatens the sovereignty and the precious socialist system in the DPRK and the peace and security on the peninsula will not be able to escape the merciless retaliatory blows of the KPA.
    The U.S. forces side should behave itself, facing up to the trend of the times, and stop at once the joint military exercises for aggression.