Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The U.S. together with south Korea kicked off the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises targeted against the DPRK, its dialogue partner. This has left the DPRK skeptical about the U.S. call for the sincerity of dialogue.

Minju Joson Friday says this in a bylined commentary.

The U.S. whets the sword for aggression to do harm to its dialogue partner despite its lip-service for dialogue and peace. It is its trite artifice, the commentary notes, and goes on:

Peace has not yet settled on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. double-dealing attitude.

The U.S. described war exercises it waged every year against the DPRK as "annual ones" and the "drills of defensive nature". With no rhetoric, however, can it cover up its aim to stifle the DPRK by force of arms based on the theory of strength. It is clearly evidenced by the focus of the on-going exercises being put on the "elimination of the WMDs from the north".

This shows that the U.S. contemplates creating the military atmosphere favorable for carrying out its policy of stifling the DPRK by mounting a surprise preemptive attack on the DPRK in "contingency" and neutralizing its nuclear deterrent for self-defence at the same time.

Peace on the Korean Peninsula is directly linked with peace of the world. It is quite unjust for the U.S., a country holding unavoidable responsibility, to take ambiguous and double-dealing attitude.

The U.S. would be well advised to clarify its stand on whether it wants dialogue or war.