The Russian paper Moskovskii Komsomolets, the French paper Le Monde and the Phoenix Satellite TV Holdings LTD., Hong Kong, China and experts on Korean issues of neighboring countries of Korea made such comments.

The commentary goes on:

The history of the U.S.-south Korea joint military drills means the one in which they have resorted to the moves for invading the north and igniting a nuclear war, escalating the tension on the peninsula every year.

Under the present situation where the Armistice Agreement is not in force, the U.S.-south Korea joint military drills serve as main factor of a war.

Clear is the aim sought by the U.S. in staging ceaseless joint military drills. They are aimed to escalate the tension on the peninsula to the worst phase and attain its strategic purpose of dominating the Asia-Pacific region.

The U.S. remains unchanged in its aggressive nature as it seeks to invade the DPRK to occupy the whole of Korea, threaten and blackmail big powers in the Asia-Pacific region by force of arms and dominate it. This nature of the U.S. imperialists can never change until they are eliminated from the earth.

The DPRK will put steady spurs to bolstering up the nuclear deterrent for self-defense as long as the U.S. keeps escalating the tension through joint military drills in south Korea,