They are describing the exercises as "defensive" and "annual ones" in a bid to cover up their aggressive and offensive nature but no one will be taken in by such foolish rhetoric.

UFG is a nuclear test war and a preliminary war to bring down the ideology and system in the DPRK.

The U.S. openly codenamed the military exercises "freedom" just as it called the Afghan and Iraqi wars "enduring freedom" and "free Iraq". This is an intolerable challenge to the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK. And this is a clear indication that the U.S. is making preparations for a war of aggression behind the scene of dialogue with an aim to bring to naught all the precious gains in the DPRK.

The U.S. has already specified the provision of "extended deterrence" to south Korea in an official document, thus making it a fait accompli that the second Korean war will be a nuclear war.

It goes without saying that the on-going exercises are vicious nuclear war exercises pursuant to the above-said scenario.

The U.S. provision of "extended deterrence" to south Korea, the updating of the scenario for anti-DPRK operations based on it and its application to the exercises prove that the reckless design of the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers to mount a surprise preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK is becoming a reality.

The U.S. is bringing dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang heavily over the Korean Peninsula, while escalating military pressure upon the DPRK, pursuant to its policy of "dialogue and pressure" towards the DPRK. Under this situation the army and people of the DPRK keenly realize once again how just it was when it chose to have access to nuclear deterrence for self-defence.

It is the invariable attitude and stand of the DPRK to react to the U.S. nuclear threat with nukes, its missile threat with missiles and its moves to drive "confrontation" to an extreme phase with just all-out confrontation of Korean style.

The U.S. had better roll back its anachronistic and hostile nuclear blackmail policy toward the DPRK.