North Korea: strongly condemns the joint exercise between America and South Korea
| North Korea strongly condemned the US-South Korean military exercise on the Korean peninsula and called it provocative. |
report Mehr News Agency According to Sputnik, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of North Korea issued a statement on Tuesday announcing that North Korea is conducting a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea strongly condemns the Korean Peninsula and considers it provocative.
North Korea’s official news agency (KCNA) quoted the spokesman of the North Korean Defense Ministry as saying, “America and North Korea They resumed provocative large-scale joint military exercises to reinforce the unpredictability of the situation in the region. Pyongyang strongly condemns these exercises”
While North Korea has repeatedly warned that the joint US-South Korean exercises near Pyongyang’s borders are a highly provocative and tension-provoking action and will inevitably respond to it, Seoul officials And Washington announced on Monday that they have started their combined military exercises on the Korean Peninsula.
The annual exercise “Freedom Shield” of the US and South Korean military forces for 11 days in the midst of increasing tensions and exchanges of fire between North and South Korea, including artillery fire near the western sea border and increasing missile tests. Pyongyang is done.
The US-South Korean drills are the first since Pyongyang scrapped a November 2018 inter-Korean military accord designed to reduce tensions along the border.
Although the U.S. and South Korea claim that such annual drills are “purely defensive,” Yongyang has long denounced the joint military drills as an exercise in aggression against itself, and in response has increased its missile tests.
On February 19, following the increase in military and political movements of the United States and its allies on the borders of North Korea, North Korea’s official media announced that the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea canceled all agreements with South Korea on the development and promotion of economic cooperation. . Last month, Pyongyang declared South Korea as its main enemy and dissolved and threatened all institutions and organizations that worked for the reunification of the two Koreas.
South Korea’s “Yonhap” news agency announced that while North Korea continues to advance its nuclear and missile programs, the latest polls show that 9 out of 10 South Koreans believe that Pyongyang is The nuclear program will not stop itself.
In a joint survey conducted by South Korea’s Gallup polling institute and Chey’s advanced research institute, 91 percent of voters answered that denuclearization of North Korea is “impossible”. The number of participants in this survey was 1043. Of those polled, 41.4 percent chose Pyongyang’s denuclearization as “not at all possible,” while 49.7 percent said it was “impossible.” In last year’s survey, 77.6 percent of the respondents said that denuclearization of the North is impossible.
