Takashi Nada, representative of the Ehime Institute for Contemporary Korean Issue in Japan, was quoted as saying this in an article posted on a website on March 8.

The main purpose of the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 16 joint military drills is to verify the feasibility of the OPLAN 5015, the article noted, adding:

The keynote of the OPLAN 5015 is the "beheading operation" targeting the supreme leadership of the DPRK and the "operation for eliminating" its nuclear and strategic rocket forces.

Special operation forces of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force flocked to south Korea all at once to carry out the scenarios.

The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army in its crucial statement said that all the powerful strategic and tactical strike means of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will go into preemptive operation of justice to thoroughly neutralize the moves of the enemy forces if there is a slight sign of their special operation forces and equipment moving to carry out the "beheading operation" and "high-density strike."

The primary target is Chongwadae and reactionary ruling machines.

The second target is the U.S. forces' bases for invading the DPRK in the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S. mainland.

The U.S. had better seriously consider the DPRK's warnings and immediately stop the joint military drills being staged together with south Korea.