North Korea has savagely criticized the recently launched South Korea-US joint firepower destruction drill, calling it a “playing with fire” and “a demonstration of war of aggression.”
North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency aimed at this training in a commentary titled “A dangerous military attempt to set fire to the fuse of nuclear war” published in the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, on the 29th. The fuss of playing with fire by puppet villains in the US and South Korea (South Korea), which have no gaps and are on the rise more and more, has crossed another dangerous threshold of escalating the situation.”
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the ROK-US alliance this year, the South Korean military and the USFK will conduct combined and joint firepower destruction drills using cutting-edge equipment on a total of five occasions from the 25th of last month to the 15th of next month. For the first exercise on the 25th, 2,500 soldiers from 71 units of the ROK and US forces and 610 units of equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, fighter jets, and unmanned aerial vehicles were mobilized.
Regarding this, the KCNA said, “As the name suggests, this training is a very dangerous play with fire.” It is a dangerous idea to try using .”
The news agency said, “It is a ‘serious threat’ if someone does it and it becomes a ‘firm security’ if someone does it, it is an unstable psychology felt by American dogs chased by security anxiety, victim consciousness, and obsession. In parallel with the war, another military action with a strong nuclear war pattern is being deployed.”
On the 19th, the news agency set the edge, targeting this combined and joint firepower destruction exercise, saying, “It is a continuation and expanded version of anti-Republican (anti-North Korea) war exercises.”
The news agency said, “Even at this time, the combined air training of the US 7th Air Force and the puppet air force continues frantically over the puppet (South Korea) area, and from the 30th, in the sea near Jeju Island, in cooperation with Japan and other followers, A ‘joint maritime interdiction exercise’ is being prayed for,” he said, adding, “There is no guarantee anywhere that this exercise will not lead to a full-scale armed invasion against us.”
The news agency also said, “Can you really bear the consequences that can result from playing with fire dangerously?”
Korea, the US/Australian Navy, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will participate in the joint maritime interdiction exercise, which will be held on the occasion of the high-level meeting of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) hosted by Korea this year.
This drill is to intercept and search ships suspected of loading weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In particular, this drill, which is being conducted near the Korean Peninsula, can be seen as targeting North Korea, which has been trading taboo goods through illegal ship-to-ship transfers on the high seas.
Source: Donga
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