U.S. and S. Korean Puppet Forces’ Projected Aerial Drill Will Be Followed by Merciless Retaliation: CPRC Spokesman
Date: 03/12/2017 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) |
Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country of the DPRK (CPRC) released a statement on Sunday in connection with the fact that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are going to launch the largest-ever joint aerial drill to “totally destroy” the DPRK on Dec. 4.
The statement says:
The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces are asserting that the planned drill will be “the largest-ever one for blowing up 700 odd primary objects of the north including nuclear facilities and missile bases” and that it will serve as “maximum pressure on the north” as it will be an “unheard-of strike action” involving formations of latest fighter jets called “the king of air battle.”
What matters is the fact that the drill simulating an actual war is to be staged at a time when insane President Trump is running wild, terming the DPRK’s ICBM test-fire “action never to be pardonable” and bluffing as if he would do “anything in response,” stunned by the DPRK’s realization of the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force and the cause of building a rocket power.
The projected war rehearsal is just a grave military provocation which will push the already acute situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.
The situation clearly proves that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet war maniacs are just aggressors and provocateurs breaking peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region and that the DPRK was entirely just when it decided to invariably take the path of simultaneously developing the two fronts in order to bolster up its war deterrent in every way.
Taking this opportunity, the DPRK cannot but remind the aggressors once again of the statement made by the chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK on Sept. 21 that the DPRK would seriously consider the taking of a highest-level hard-line countermeasure in history to cope with the U.S. and its vassal forces’ reckless moves against the state and people of the DPRK and would surely force them to pay dearly for their provocations.
The U.S. and south Korean puppet military warmongers should bear in mind that their escalating provocation and adding to crimes will only invite more terrible retaliation and precipitate their self-destruction.
In response, South Korean media issued the following statement:
S. Korea says allies’ ongoing air drill is defensive in nature
2017/12/04
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s unification ministry said Monday that a joint air force drill between Seoul and Washington is defensive in nature, rejecting North Korea’s condemnation of the exercise.
A spokesman at North Korea’s foreign ministry on Saturday denounced the exercise as a large-scale nuclear war drill against North Korea. The five-day Vigilant Ace war games kicked off Monday, days after the North fired a long-range missile.
“The air force drill is an annual joint military exercise among the allies of a defensive nature. The government will not comment on every reaction by North Korea,” Baik Tae-hyun, spokesman at the Ministry of Unification, told a press briefing.
The exercise, which involves six U.S. F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets, came as a show of force against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
The North on Wednesday launched a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which it claims is capable of striking the entire territory of the U.S., declaring that it has completed its “state nuclear force.”
“The government does not accept the North’s ‘unilateral’ claim to completing its nuclear program. We are making efforts to resolve the North’s nuclear issue peacefully with the international community,” Baik said.
Seoul said Friday that it does not regard North Korea as crossing a “red line” with its latest missile test due to doubts about its technical capabilities including re-entry and terminal guidance technology.
After the North’s tests of two ICBMs in July, President Moon Jae-in said that North Korea would be crossing a red line if it creates a nuclear-tipped ICBM. Crossing that threshold could risk tougher actions from the U.S. including a military one.
This file photo shows Baik Tae-hyun, spokesman at the Ministry of Unification. (Yonhap)