KCNA releases commentary hitting Ulji Freedom Shield
The commentary said.
The large-scale US- ROK joint military exercises, Ulji Freedom Shield, began in every part of the ROK on August 17. The drill poses the most immediate and open threat to the DPRK and the regional security.
The exercises will last for over 10 days, involving US troops in the ROK and the ROK army as the mainstay of the exercises as well as extra-regional US reinforcements and forces of member states of the "UN Command". And these frantic exercises cover all spheres of carrying out wartime operations including the ground, sea, air, space, cyber and psychological information. This is pushing again the tensions on the Korean peninsula to the threshold of a war.
In particular, all the major units under the US 8th Army, including the 2nd Infantry Division, the 19th Sustainment Command, the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, and the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, are taking part in the drill. And various actual maneuvers of the drill include a combined arms live-firing exercise aimed at verifying the capability for joint precision strike and mobility, a combined wet gap crossing exercise and a joint logistic support maneuver for providing war supplies in contingency.
Nevertheless, prior to the exercises, the military warmongers of the United States and the ROK described the drill as "annual" and "defensive" one in public with the aim of hiding the aggressive and provocative nature of the largest-ever exercises.
Such drill, which has been staged for decades despite the changes of regimes in the United States and the ROK, cannot be regarded only as a bad habitual military practice of the enemy states. And we can never get used to it.
The dangerous escalation of the war drills staged by the United States and its vassal forces is posing a more serious threat to the security rights of the DPRK and this will lead to the further deterioration of the situation of the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.
The present situation makes us keenly realize what we should do.
The DPRK's exercise of its right to self-defence will continue to completely neutralize the enemies' military threat until the enemy states give up their reckless dream of overwhelming someone by force and completely abandon their attempt to break the balance of strength in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula.
The DPRK will always put all the enemies violating and threatening its sovereign security in the sighting range for precision and annihilating strike by its retaliatory means.
All the war drills for aggression staged by the enemy states in the Korean peninsula and the region will never produce the result desired by them, the commentary added.