KCNA wrote:
> KCNA Blasts U.S. and S. Korea for Staging Large-scale Military
> Drill against DPRK
> Date: 16/05/2018 | Source: KCNA.kp (En)
> Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- KCNA made public the following report
> on May 16:
> The south Korean authorities, together with the U.S., has been
> staging the largest-ever "2018 Max Thunder" joint air drill
> throughout south Korea since May 11 in a bid to make a preemptive
> air strike at the DPRK and win the air.
> Involved in the drill are over 100 fighters of various missions
> including B-52 strategic nuclear bombers and F-22 Raptor stealth
> fighters under the supervision of the U.S. imperialist aggressor
> forces in south Korea and the south Korean air force. It is to
> last till May 25.
> Public opinions at home and abroad comment that the maneuver is
> the largest-ever and a reflection of the invariable stand of the
> U.S. and south Korea to persist in the "maximum pressure and
> sanctions" against the DPRK.
> The DPRK-targeted drill across south Korea is an undisguised
> challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and a deliberate military
> provocation to the trend of the favorably developing situation on
> the Korean Peninsula.
> The north and the south solemnly declared in the declaration that
> a new peace era was ushered in and reached an agreement on making
> joint efforts to defuse the acute military tensions on the
> peninsula and substantially ease the danger of war and the
> U.S. also fully supported it.
> However, even before the ink of the historic April 27 Declaration
> got dry, the south Korean authorities and the U.S. started such a
> drill against the DPRK, reacting to all the peace-loving efforts
> and good intentions which the DPRK has shown with rude and wicked
> provocation and arousing serious concern and disappointment among
> all the fellow countrymen and the international community wanting
> the declaration to be implemented.
> If the U.S. and the south Korean authorities regard the phase of
> improving inter-Korean ties and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue provided by
> the proactive and broadminded efforts and measures of the DPRK as
> something allowed any time and any hour, then they are sadly
> mistaken.
> The south Korean authorities, in particular, resorted to such
> improper acts quite contrary to the promise to make efforts for
> the peace, prosperity and reunification on the peninsula together
> with the north and are allowing even human scum to brazenly hurl
> mud at the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its
> system and play down the Panmunjom Declaration in front of the
> building of the "National Assembly".
> There is a limit in showing goodwill and offering opportunity.
> The historic Panmunjom Declaration cannot be implemented by the
> unilateral efforts of a single party but can result in a good
> fruition only when the two parties create favorable conditions and
> climate by pooling their efforts.
>
We cannot but take a step of suspending
> the north-south high-level talks scheduled on May 16 under the
> prevailing seriously awful situation that a mad-cap north-targeted
> war and confrontation racket are being kicked up in south Korea.
> The south Korean authorities, lost to all senses, should be held
> wholly accountable for the scuttled north-south high-level talks
> and the difficulties and obstacles in the way of the north-south
> relations.
> The U.S. will have to think twice about the fate of the DPRK-U.S.
> summit now on high agenda before a provocative military racket
> against the DPRK in league with the south Korean
> authorities.
> We will closely watch the ensuing behavior of the U.S. and the
> south Korean authorities.
>
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