U.S., S. Korea Urged to Stop War Gambles--NPCK Spokesman

U.S., S. Korea Urged to Stop War Gambles--NPCK Spokesman

Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean authorities should promptly discontinue DPRK-targeted joint military exercises, Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, said a spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea in a statement Wednesday. 　 The U.S. and south Korean warmongers are staging the madcap war gambles with huge armed forces and nuclear war equipment, strong enough to conduct an overall war, involved, revealing their scheme to overthrow the DPRK system. They announced that the exercises are aimed to "remove the nukes and missiles" of someone and "cope with contingency". 　 They have asserted that the ongoing exercises are for "defence", but this is absurd sophism to cover up their aggressive nature, evade the blame for having driven the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war and mislead the public opinion at home and abroad, the statement pointed out. 　 It further said: 　 The south Korean authorities claim that "the door for dialogue is open", questioning someone′s "sincerity", though they are getting hell-bent on the war moves to harm their dialogue partner by force. This is a very shameless and ridiculous behavior. 　 The present developments remind one of the days when traitor Syngman Rhee ignited a war of aggression on the DPRK in collusion with foreign forces in reply to the patriotic appeal made by the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea on the eve of the last Korean War, which carried a proposal for preventing permanent division of the nation and achieving peaceful reunification of the country. 　 By nature, the U.S. and south Korean authorities are not interested in the north-south dialogue, detente and peace, but seek only confrontation and war for aggression on the DPRK. 　 As already declared, the army and people of the DPRK will deal a resolute and merciless blow to those who dare attempt