Key Resolve and Foal Eagle the U.S. and the south Korean authorities are planning to stage from March 8 reveal that the "dialogue" touted so far by the U.S. imperialists and their followers is nothing but a sheer lie, the statement charged, adding:

This saber-rattling is aimed at violating the sovereignty of the DPRK and bringing down the socialist system in the DPRK by force of arms.

The branch fully supports the statement released by a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on Feb. 25.

We demand the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet clique cancel the plan for the exercises and the U.S. pull back its forces from south Korea at once.

We call upon all the branches of the KFA to intensify the movement for solidarity with the DPRK.