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N. Korea blasts S. Korea-U.S. joint military drill
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Sunday denounced an upcoming South Korea-U.S. military exercise as a "maneuver for a nuclear war" and warned it will react with "merciless retaliation."South Korea and the United States are scheduled to stage the Ulji Freedom Guardian exercise from Monday through Aug. 27. North Korea has typically blasted such joint drills as war preparation, while the allies say they are purely defensive. "The maneuvers for a nuclear war projected by the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors are by no means a demonstration of military muscle of a defensive nature," a spokesman for the Panmunjom Mission of the Korean People's Army said in a statement. Only "naive children who have just started learning the four rules of arithmetic" would believe the South Korean-U.S. logic, the unidentified spokesman said. "Through these nuclear war exercises the American master and his servant seek to openly call for escalating their 'sanctions' and 'pressure' upon the DPRK (North Korea)," he said. "Should the U.S. imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group threaten the DPRK with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes," the spokesman warned. "If they tighten 'sanctions' and push 'confrontation' to an extreme phase, the DPRK will react with a merciless retaliation of its own style and an all-out war of justice."
Posted by: Steve White 2009-08-16 |
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