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Complete discontinuance of war games needed

Pyongyang Times

Date: 17/03/2019 | Source: Pyongyang Times

Though the US and south Korea talk about the "end" of joint military exercises under strong public opposition at home and abroad, they have recently staged a war drill under the codename "alliance", which is similar to the previous ones in terms of content and purpose.

On March 3, they made public the end of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises and the enforcement of new war game with the new codename. Accordingly, the Key Resolve joint military exercise, a combined command post drill, has changed its codename as "alliance" and was staged between March 3 and 12, and the Foal Eagle joint military drill will be conducted frequently throughout the year without any codename in the form of small-scale field manoeuvres below the battalion level.

The recent joint military drill was aimed to enhance the capacity for conducting war by examining the wartime operations plan simulating the "north's all-out invasion of the south" through a computer simulation test.

Involved there were south Korea's defence ministry, joint chiefs of staff, operation headquarters of three services and a combined unit under the direct control of the defence ministry, and some members of the south Korea-US Combined Forces Command, the US Command in south Korea and the general headquarters of the US forces in the India-Pacific region from the US side.

The US and south Korea advertise that the drill aims to back up the diplomatic efforts for easing tension on the Korean peninsula and achieve complete denuclearization, as they describe it as "defensive one" for consolidating the alliance between them and defending regional stability and assert that they have drastically reduced the number of participating troops and period as compared to the Key Resolve.

They can never cover up the aggressive and confrontational nature of the war game no matter how cunningly they play a trick, while reducing its scale and period.