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S. Korean Authorities' Projected War Exercises under Fire

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

    Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Some days ago, the minister of Defence of south Korea at a regular press conference blustered that it would go ahead as planned with all the exercises scheduled for this year as well as the joint military exercises with the U.S. due in upcoming March, talking about "training" and strong army" at a time when the hard-won north-south military authorities' talks are at hand. Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun Wednesday terms this an anti-national and anti-reunification outburst intended to drive the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a war in collusion with outsiders and thus bedevil the north-south relations and overturn the June 15 joint declaration.
    The news analyst goes on:
    All the joint military exercises the south Korean warmongers had staged in south Korea with the U.S. imperialist aggression troops since the 1970s were without exception preliminary wars and test nuclear wars to invade the DPRK from A to Z in view of their nature, scale and programs.
    The south Korean authorities are threatening to hold the war exercises to invade the north with outsiders this year too, with the inter-Korean military authorities' talks at hand. This is a challenge to the dialogue partner and a mockery of it. Dialogue can never go together with war exercises. The south Korean authorities' announcement of their plan to stage those war exercises against the north goes to prove that "dialogue", "reconciliation," "building of military confidence" and "detente" much touted by them are nothing but rhetoric to deceive the public opinion. It is an intolerable anti-national and anti-reunification criminal act for them to join the outsiders in their war maneuvers aimed at seriously threatening the destiny of the nation even in the June 15 era of reunification when the idea of "By our nation itself" dominates the movement for independent reunification and the national cooperation has become the trend of the times.
    The south Korean authorities should clarify before the entire nation whether they stand for reconciliation and cooperation or for confrontation and war.