calendar>>August 23. 2016 Juche 105
U.S., S. Korean Puppet Warmongers Kick off Ulji Freedom Guardian
Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers on Monday kicked off Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises aimed to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK, according to Yonhap News of south Korea.

The puppet warmongers committed largest-ever shelling provocation on all fronts on August 18 with hundreds of ground artillery pieces and drones involved.

On August 19 they let fly more than 60 fighters, helicopters and transports for large-scale combined combat drill for preemptive strike for the removal of strategic force of the DPRK and precision strike on its core targets.

Earlier, B-52Hs, B-1Bs and B-2As known as the U.S. triad nuclear strategic bombers were deployed on Guam for sortie.

It was reported that tens of thousands of U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, more than 50 000 puppet forces, hundreds of thousands of civilians and armed forces of different satellite states will be involved in the exercises which run till September 2.

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