The Brazilian Committee for Solidarity with the DPRK in a statement on March 1 denounced the U.S. and the south Korean puppet clique for staging the large-scale joint military exercises. The statement said:

The current saber-rattling once again reminds people of the historic fact that the U.S. ignited a war against the DPRK on June 25, 1950. The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors, the coward servants of the U.S. keen to make the Koreans slaves of imperialism, are joining the U.S. imperialists in their ceaseless moves to invade the DPRK.

The group, not content with its reckless moves to gratify its dirty greed, kicked up such unpardonable hysteric rackets as hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

The criminal acts committed by the group this time are not simple provocations but showed the Lee group is no more than a bandit of traitors kowtowing to the U.S. imperialists, the worst enemies of mankind.

We bitterly condemn the criminal moves of the south Korean authorities.

The Group for the Study of the Juche Idea "Kanggye" of Colombia in a statement on March 7 condemned the war moves of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities as reckless acts of aggravating the situation and threatening peace. The statement noted:

The provocative military exercises for aggression are acts going against the atmosphere of dialogue, reconciliation, self-restraint and peace.

We strongly condemn the U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises.