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The Korean and American Flags, Shown With Insignia for
the Annual U.S.-South Korea Ulchi Focus Lens Excercises.
Top U.S. and South Korean Naval Officials After the Ulchi Focus Lens 2002 Excercises.
Kim Jong-il Regime Calls for End of U.S.-Led War Games
Pyongyang regards the annual U.S.-South Korea war games
as a provocation, says the purpose of the annual event is to put the finishing
touches on plans for a war of aggression, and helpfully points out that all this
might be a setback for six-party talks. By North Korean standards, it is a rather half-hearted verbal attack on Washington, which could be a good sign.
August 24, 2005
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Article (English) 
Pyongyang: The United States and South Korea began the Ulji Focus Lens 2005 joint military exercises
on Aug. 22. The 12-day exercises will end Sept. 2, the Rodong Sinmun [Communist
Party Newspaper] observed in a signed commentary on Wednesday:
Taking in the Sights on the Streets of Pyongyang. Photo
from May, 2001
South Korean Naval Mishipmen Visit a U.S. Ship.
In pushing forward the reorganization and
relocation of its forces and staging military exercises with South
Korea and Japan in quick succession, the U.S. is fully preparing itself for another Korean War.
The ongoing saber-rattling is, therefore, preliminary to provoking a war of
aggression. It goes on:
The exercises are aimed at finishing off preparations
for a preemptive attack on the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea and ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula. It is also an attempt to hamstring the process of reconciliation and
cooperation between the north and south and, by force of arms, pressure North Korea into accepting the unreasonable demands raised by
the U.S. at six-party talks.
Should America persist in escalating its
military provocations and refuse to withdraw its policy of stifling North
Korea, the chances for confidence-building between Pyongyang and Washington
will fade and the situation will turn more complicated.
Reality compels the army and people of the
Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea to heighten their vigilance against America’s sophism that it will "neither attack nor invade
the DPRK." It also reinforces Pyongyang’s determination to bolster its military deterrence
in every way. America’s bellicose forces should ponder the consequences
of their madcap military exercises against North Korea and immediately stop the Ulji Focus Lens-2005 joint
military exercises. which mitigate against peace and dialogue.
MOVIE: THE CRIME OF KOREA, 1950, From the U.S.
Army Signal Corps.
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