At the press conference speakers said that the minister of Defense, boss of military gangsters steeped in confrontation with fellow countrymen and hostility to the marrow of their bones, unhesitatingly made reckless remarks increasing the danger of a war on the Korean peninsula.

They accused him of worsening the inter-Korean relations while talking about "north's provocation" and "retaliation".

The hardcore of the Ulji Freedom Guardian is the "tailored deterrence strategy", they said, adding it is aimed to mount a preemptive nuclear strike on the north.

Such dangerous military exercises will escalate military tensions, they noted.

War and peace are incompatible, they said, demanding the military authorities halt the north-targeted joint military exercises and not throw a wet blanket over the improved inter-Korean relations.