US-SK military exercises-appeal from KCSWP

Dear friends,

Warm greetings from Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People!

The south Korea-U.S. “Combined Forces Command” announced on July 24 that joint military exercises “Ulji Freedom Guardian” would be staged from August 17 to 27.

These joint military maneuvers will be participated in by commands of army corps and fleet and flying corps of the south Korean armed forces and above and at least 56,000 troops and more than 10,000 U.S. troops present in south Korea and overseas.

Especially, they were reported to be staged under a new joint operational scenario instead of the existing OPLAN 5027.

The “OPLAN 5027” based on simulated the 2^nd Korean war, which was firstly mentioned by Li Byong Tae, the then minister of national defense of south Korea, was mapped out a long time ago and periodically upgraded.

According to the south Korean news, the “OPLAN 5027” consists of 6 steps plan and the main contents are as follows;

- 1^st Step (Restraint step)

Deploy the U.S. troops on the Korean Peninsula according to the front rapid deployment war plan

- 2^nd Step (Neutralization step)

Attack the main part of the north Korea with the air forces and missile and check the north Korean Army at the northern part of the military demarcation line

- 3^rd Step (Ground attack step)

Break through the military demarcation line and destroy the main forces of the north Korean Army and conduct the landing operation at the East Sea at the same time

- 4^th Step (Step to increasing the war success)

Isolate Pyongyang and establish the military administration by occupying up to the northern part of Chong Chon River

- 5^th Step (End of the war)

Achieve the armed reunification by overthrowing the north Korean government

- 6^th Step

Occupation Rule

The U.S. is clamoring this war plan as the “defensive” but in reality, this war plan is the extreme dangerous war plan to invade the north.

That’s why, the high-ranking officials in the U.S. army are making no disguises to say that this war plan is to lead the north Korea to the provocation by stimulating the north and invade the north with the excuse.

This war plan can be easily understood of its offensive character through the pre-emptive theory of U.S.

In June 2001, Bush, the then president of U.S. , propagandized at the graduation ceremony of the military academy of army that “We have to challenge against the enemies to destroy their plan and have to fight against them before the worst threats”.

In September 2002, he made the congress to adopt the pre-emptive attack theory through his first report on the strategy of the national defense to the congress.

The U.S. made the “OPLAN 5030” as the additional to the “OPLAN 5027” in 2003 in accordance with the experiences and lessons from the Afghanistan and Iraq war.

It has the purposes to decrease the operating capacity of the army, air forces and the navy of the north Korean army with the continuous provocation and military exercises against the north and then easily achieve its attempt of aggression to the north.

This plan gives the rights to the U.S. headquarters of the Pacific region to sally the reconnaissance planes and fighters near the Korean Peninsula before the war to tempt the north Korean air forces to the sallies for the obstruction.

The U.S. military authorities are taking into account that the continuous tactics of allurements will finish the limited aviation fuel of the north and the north Korean air forces will be neutralized.

The U.S. is also, through the continuous military exercises in big scales, planning to make DPRK to waste the war reserve materials by let our people and army to be stay at the constant combat preparations.

Through these facts, it could be found that the operation plans by the U.S. are the aggressive plan to invade the DPRK and the 2^nd Korean War plan, which is giving semblance of “Defense” to deceive and mislead the world publications and to justify its warmongering maneuvers.

All the facts such as several U.S-south Korean joint military exercises like “Key Resolve”, “Eagle”, “Ulji Freedom Guardian” and etc; the importing of the latest military equipments; the relocation of the U.S. troops in south Korea and the rapid increase of the air and navy attack forces; are clearly showing that the preparation for the practice of the operation plan to invading the DPRK is in proceeding systemically and stepwise and nobody knows when the operation plan will be turn into the practice.

These also show well the U.S. ’ sinister intention which mislead the world publication that the DPRK is tensing the situation of the Northeast Asia and Korean Peninsula .

If there will be an outbreak of the new war on the Korean Peninsula , it will be the nuclear war and the neighbor countries will be implicated in the war.

We express our firm believes that you and your organizations whom have the deep concerns with the situation of the Korean Peninsula, will wage several kinds of solidarity activities to denounce the war provocative maneuvers of the U.S. and south Korean authorities.

With regards,