Beijing, August 17 (KCNA) -- Xinhua on Aug. 16 dealt with the injustice of the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises kicked off by the U.S. and the south Korean war-like forces.

It said that joint military drills - code named Ulji Freedom Guardian - conducted by the United States and South Korea would by no means promote regional peace and stability, and instead likely endanger the delicate status quo on the Korean Peninsula.

Though the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has urged the two participants to cancel their annual saber rattling, the demand was apparently brushed off by Washington and Seoul without considering the consequences.

It has been widely accepted within the international community that negotiations are the best possible way to denuclearize the peninsula and to install peace and stability not only between Pyongyang and Seoul, but also in northeastern Asia as a whole.

The DPRK said recently it is ready to return to the multilateral dialogue with no preconditions attached and would implement the Sept. 19 joint statement on the principle of simultaneous action.

However, the no-precondition promise was lukewarmly received by either the United States or south Korea.

A lack of trust and a wait-and-see attitude taken by the U.S. and south Korea have also complicated the peninsula's nuclear conundrum.

China has for the past urged and remains unchanged that all related parties should exercise maximal restraint and do nothing to put regional peace and stability in jeopardy.

Therefore, the most urgent task for the U.S. and south Korea to do at the moment is not to trigger another round of tension in the region during their war games and fully consider the security concerns of the neighboring countries.

They should also cease conducting any activities deemed to be provocative and aggressive to the DPRK in the future, and take serious steps together with other countries involved to denuclearize the divided peninsula.

The United States and its ally need to remember that lasting peace could never be established through military coercion.