It was reported that Aegis destroyer belonging to the U.S. Seventh Fleet, a destroyer of the First Fleet of the south Korean navy and other preemptive attack means will be involved in the exercises.

The U.S. imperialists and south Korean warmongers are openly challenging the demand of the DPRK for removing the danger of war and easing tension on the Korean peninsula, while trying to conceal the nature of the planned military exercises under the pretext of so-called "regular drills".