Pyongyang, March 5.- The Freedom Shield military exercises recently started by the United States and South Korea are provocative and make the situation in this area more unpredictable, denounced the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
In a statement reproduced today by the state news agency KCNA, the Ministry of National Defense indicated that this year's maneuvers are double the size of the previous one and involve troops from 12 member states of the United Nations Command.
Created in 1950 by mandate of the UN, this entity has the task of supervising the implementation of an armistice signed in 1953, but which technically did not end the war because the parties in conflict did not sign a peace treaty.
The DPRK Defense Ministry argued that exercises involving the largest nuclear weapons possessor and a dozen of its allies cannot be described as “defensive,” and warned that conditions exist on the Korean Peninsula for the outbreak of a war due to of a minor incident.
Days before the 11-day Freedom Shield began, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said they aimed to improve their “combined defense posture” and would focus on multi-domain operations using land, sea, air, cyber and space.
The Ministry of Defense categorically condemns the reckless military exercises of the US and the Republic of Korea, which expose the military threat and attempts of aggression against a sovereign State, and seriously warns to stop such provocative actions, notes the statement.
The DPRK Armed Forces, he warns, will closely monitor the adventurous actions of the enemies and continue their responsible military activities aimed at controlling the unstable security environment on the Korean Peninsula.
Pyongyang has long denounced military exercises by the United States and its allies as rehearsals for an invasion against it and, in response, is systematically modernizing its defensive system. (PL) (Photo: AP)
