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Ulji Freedom Guardian Flayed

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

   Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The large-scale Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises staged by the United States and the south Korean puppets in south Korea from August 18 to 22 were very dangerous ones for aggression aimed at mounting a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK.
    Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed commentary.
    It goes on:
    The Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises staged by the U.S. and the south Korean puppet military replacing Ulji Focus Lens, the codename of joint military maneuvers they staged for scores of years, were dangerous playing with fire intended to "examine in an all-round way" their preparations for DPRK-targeted war of aggression including the south Korean administrative institutions.
    Worse still, the bellicose forces inside and outside south Korea waged the recent joint military drills in such a way that the south Korean puppet armed forces "spearhead" the said exercises and the U.S. forces "support" them. They even publicized that the war exercises are "defensive ones to cope with the transfer of the rights to command the wartime operations." This is, however, nothing but nonsense.
    What merits a serious attention is that they provocatively launched the north-targeted joint military exercises at a time when the U.S. threw obstacles in the progress of the six-party talks and in the implementation of agreements of the talks, raising such an irrelevant issue as "human rights" of the DPRK. The U.S. can never evade the responsibility for the crimes of deliberately straining the tension on the Korean Peninsula and checking the trend of the times for dialogue and peace by staging the madcap exercises.
    The Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises were an inevitable product of the treacherous and bellicose policy for inter-Korean confrontation pursued by the Lee Myung Bak group zealously following the U.S. reckless policy of aggression against the DPRK and its war hysteria for the aggression on the north.
    Absolutely intolerable are the U.S. and the south Korean bellicose forces' war provocation for aggression against the north as they escalate confrontation and tension and spoil the atmosphere of dialogue and peace, blatantly challenging the trend of the times.
    The DPRK will bolster the war deterrent for self-defence under the uplifted banner of Songun to cope with the vicious north-targeted moves for a war of aggression getting ever-more undisguised on the part of the bellicose forces at home and abroad and resolutely foil any provocation with strong countermeasures. The war-thirsty forces would be well advised to refrain from the rash acts.