War Moves of the US imperialists and south Korean puppets

On February 18, the South Korea-US Combined Military Command officially announced that it would stage joint military exercises codenamed “Key Resolve” and “Foal Eagle” from March 3 to 20 throughout south Korea .

Some 12 000 south Korea-based US aggression troops and 14 000 overseas-based US troops, totaling 26 000, the largest ever, hundreds of thousands south Korean puppet army, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and tens of warships and latest war equipment are to be committed to the projected drills and the period of the exercises is further extended than the last year.

The moves of the US imperialists and the south Korean belligerent forces to stage again the large-scale nuclear war drills against the north in defiance of the repeated denunciations of all the Korean and world peace-loving peoples aspiring to a durable peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula are wicked war rehearsals and dangerous military provocations aimed at strangling the DPRK by force of arms and impose a calamity of nuclear war upon the Korean nation.

More recently spokesmen for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army and the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland of the DPRK made public statements providing against the grave situation where the inter-Korean relations face a catastrophe and a war could break out any moment due to the anti-DPRK confrontation policy and war moves of the US imperialists and the treacherous Lee Myong-bak clique.

The gravity and severity of danger of the north-targeted war drills stand out here, for they are to be staged just at this juncture.

The US and south Korean puppet war maniacs should behave themselves, aware of the situation and stop at once the reckless war drills against the DPRK, which will incur only their self-destruction.

Now the AINDF, different civic organizations and the patriotic people are dynamically conducting the struggle to resolutely check the criminal war drills against the north by the US and south Korean war maniacs and to secure the sovereignty and peace of the nation.

We strongly demand the US to stop at once its reckless war provocations against the DPRK, abandon its anachronistic hostile policy toward the north, and withdraw its aggression troops, root cause of the aggravated tension and war danger on the Korean Peninsula, from south Korea forthwith.

The south Korean belligerent forces should stop without delay the joint military exercises with foreign forces if they really want to improve inter-Korean relations and peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula .

Availing ourselves of this opportunity we express our expectation and belief that your respected organization would extend the full support and solidarity to the anti-US and anti-war struggle of the Korean nation to smash the DPRK-targeted war moves of the US and south Korean war bellicose forces and safeguard the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula .

Such solidarity actions may include the publishing of related statement or press release, the sending of protest letters to the White House and the south Korean government, etc.