"It is not hard to guess what the U.S. side seeks through this war drill," the spokesman was quoted as saying by North Korea�s official Korean Central News Agency."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1034623&C=asiapac Posted 08/15/05 16:07 N. Korea Says U.S., S. Korea Exercise Preludes War By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, SEOUL The North Korean military on Aug. 13 condemned the United States for an upcoming military drill with South Korea, accusing Washington of using the war games as a prelude to war. A North Korean Army spokesman said the annual military exercises between the two nations were also aimed at forcing the North to accept U.S. terms in six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program. �It is not hard to guess what the U.S. side seeks through this war drill,� the spokesman was quoted as saying by North Korea�s official Korean Central News Agency. �Its brigandish aim is to wind up its preparations for pre-emptive attack on the DPRK (North Korea) and drive the situation on the peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension in a bid to block the positive process of reconciliation and cooperation between the North and the South and force the DPRK to accept the unjust demands raised by the U.S. at the six-party talks,� the spokesman said. The exercise, scheduled to take place from Aug. 22 to Sept. 2, is one of the three largest U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises. It usually features computer simulation drills involving an unspecified number of South Korean troops and more than 10,000 U.S. troops. Six-nation talks on Pyongyang�s nuclear ambitions broke off for three weeks on Aug. 7 without any sign of agreement on how to get the Stalinist state to abandon atomic weapons. The talks, which involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan, are scheduled to resume in the final week of August. �The U.S. side�s arrogant action only bars the KPA (Korean People�s Army) from expecting anything from the dialogue with the U.S. and reinforces its correct judgment that it is the only way of defending the country and its sovereignty and system to build up deterrence for self-defense,� the North Korean Army spokesman said. His statement came a day after delegates from the two Koreas failed to set a date for the agreed-upon high-level military talks aimed at reducing tension between the sides. The North later said �conditions were not ripe� to hold the general-grade discussions, blaming the U.S.-South Korea military exercises. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hdva8rl/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124156809/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
