calendar>>February 25. 2014 Juche 103

Rodong Sinmun Denounces Start of Key Resolve

Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean warmongers finally started the large-scale Key Resolve joint military exercise in south Korea on Monday. The exercise is supposed to last till March 6 and will be followed by Foal Eagle joint military drill to be staged in the land, sea and air under the simulated conditions of an actual war till April 18 with huge troops of the U.S. aggressor forces and south Korean army and latest offensive means and war hardware including nuclear submarines involved.

Rodong Sinmun Tuesday observes in a commentary in this regard:

This saber-rattling is a blatant challenge to the DPRK's sincere efforts for mending the north-south ties and defusing the tension on the Korean peninsula.

They claim that the on-going war exercises are "annual and defensive ones" as they did in the past. However, this is nothing but a third-rate tactics for covering up their provocative and aggressive nature.

It is the U.S. invariable strategy to realize its scenario for dominating Korea by keeping the Korean nation into two and inciting the north-south confrontation, the commentary notes, and goes on:

The U.S. is sadly mistaken if it calculates it can get anything by pushing the situation on the peninsula to a war.

The DPRK has already made every possible effort for peace and stability on the peninsula.

It will make sustained efforts to ensure peace on the peninsula by exercising self-restraint and patience in the future, too.

But if the warmongers at home and abroad misinterpret the DPRK's will for peace and launch a preemptive attack, the DPRK will resolutely counter it to protect its national security and dignity.