At least 330 000 troops of the ground, naval and air forces and marine corps of the south Korean puppet army will reportedly be involved in the drills.

GIs present in south Korea will also be hurled into the drills.

The war-like forces are to stage such provocative drills as joint landing drills, drills for defending northwestern islands and interception drills under the pretext of coping with "a local war and a total war to be provoked by the north."

They have sought a chance to ignite a war while staging drills targeting the DPRK under the signboard of Hoguk every year.

The projected drills bring to light their war hysteria as they are becoming more bellicose and provocative in terms of their scale and contents than last year.