They included the Association for the Study of Songun Policy and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.

The exercises to be staged with huge armed forces of the U.S. and south Korea are an intolerable challenge to the DPRK and an action of seriously threatening peace and security in Northeast Asia, the statement pointed out.

The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are now rendering the situation extremely tense as they did last year, it noted, adding:

Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, which will aggravate the situation of the Korean Peninsula, are a threat not only to the sovereignty of the DPRK but also to the world peace.

We demand that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces stop at once the joint military drills and threat to the DPRK.

We call on the world peace-loving people to turn out in protecting the DPRK, the socialist homeland of Juche.