The south Korean regime and the U.S. are describing the Ulji Freedom Guardian as an "annual drill for defense" but it is clearly aimed at a preemptive attack, they noted, and adding:

Such muscle flexing running counter to international law would provide only opportunity to the U.S. keen to build a triangular missile shield through the deployment of THAAD and cook up a military alliance and Japan seeking to stage a comeback to the Korean peninsula.

Such military pressures as large-scale military drill would not help solve the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula, they noted, demanding a halt to their military exercises.