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KCNA Terms Ulji Freedom Guardian Criminal Saber-Rattling

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

   Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and the south Korean warlike forces are staging Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises.
    The exercises currently underway according to the U.S. war scenario are premeditated war actions aimed at a preemptive attack on the DPRK and an adventurous saber-rattling to escalate military confrontation and tension on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. is instigating the bellicose Lee Myung Bak "government" to incite confrontation with fellow countrymen in a bid to ignite a new war on the peninsula at any cost.
    The U.S. changed Ulji Focus Lens, the codename of the joint war exercises, into Ulji Freedom Guardian as part of the arrangements for the transfer of the "rights to command the wartime operations" due in 2012 and brought about a change in the "commanding system" so that the south Korean military might spearhead the operations. This is aimed to prepare the south Korean puppet army as a shock brigade for a war of aggression against the DPRK from A to Z.
    The U.S. seeks the sinister purpose of increasing the independent capacity of the south Korean puppet army to plan and carry out operations in a bid to boost the ground operation capacity by using it as a bullet shield and raise the effect of the U.S. forces' medium- and long-range precision strikes and rapid task strikes at strategic bases in the DPRK in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. forces and the south Korean puppets have staged DPRK-targeted coordinated ground operations and drills for air strikes one after another, systematically expanding their scales and contents. This time they launched commanding post exercises by use of latest equipment with nearly 70,000 troops involved. These are grave war maneuvers driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a crisis.
    The commander of the U.S. forces in south Korea blustered that the transfer of the rights to command the wartime operations to the south Korean army would help tighten the south Korea-U.S. alliance and the first Ulji Freedom Guardian exercises would provide a good opportunity for doing the job.
    The on-going war exercises have brought to light their aggressive and dangerous nature as they are aimed at rounding off the military preparations of the U.S. forces and the south Korean puppet army for invading the north.
    The U.S. is busy staging war exercises to attack the DPRK on the ground and in the sea and the air almost everyday, while talking about the improvement of the DPRK-U.S. relations at the negotiating table. It is, at the same time, equipping the south Korean puppet troops with ultra-modern war hardware, egging them on to confrontation with the north.
    The U.S.-south Korea war exercises are military actions quite contrary to the requirements of the reality and the trend of the times.
    The reality clearly proves that the U.S. talking that it has no intention to attack the DPRK has neither persuasive power nor truth and it is no more than a deceptive artifice to disarm the army and people of the DPRK.
    The U.S. had better act with reason, pondering over the consequences to be entailed by its anti-DPRK military hysteria designed to torpedo talks and harass peace.