They opened to media the drill of Striker armed with ultra-modern war equipment, fanning up war hysteria.

On March 8 they frantically staged war exercises for getting familiar with the rapid deployment of U.S. reinforcements and other operations in Taegu.

A similar war drill was staged in Pusan on the same day where there is the operation command of the south Korean puppet navy.

In another development, the puppet fire fighting and disaster prevention agency announced on March 15 that it would stage a large-scale "civil defense training."

It was reported that armored cars and other war equipment of the puppet army would be involved in the drill for the first time.