opinion

Every March, a bleak war wind blows for sure from the southern part of the Korean peninsula.

This year is no exception. Warmongers of the US and the puppet ROK will stage large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield in the ROK under the simulated conditions of an all-out war against the DPRK from next week.

No matter how frequently the enemy states describe the said large-scale war rehearsal targeting a sovereign state as “annual” and “defensive” one, they can never cover up its habitual, offensive and confrontational nature since it has “contributed” in a sustained way to violating the sovereignty, security and interests of the DPRK and deteriorating the regional situation.

Here is some published data that make the exercises’ real character clear.

The forthcoming Freedom Shield will include seven more joint field mobile drills by units of brigade-level and above than last year. 

This means that the exercises will renew the record of last year, in which field mobile drills of various missions were staged over twice more than the previous year by involving even the forces from ten-odd satellite countries under the “UN Command”, and this shows in a visual way that the enemy states’ nonstop reckless war moves are inching to a dangerous phase moment by moment, drawing a mounting curve.

What is also noticeable is the fact that the military ruffians of the US and the ROK will use lots of cutting-edge military hardware in the forthcoming rehearsal, in the light of lessons from the recent wars, to further boost its aggressive and threatening nature as completely offensive one for an actual war.

The US Space Force staged a space operation drill targeting the DPRK in January in cooperation with the ROK Air Force. And this time it is going to participate in the forthcoming rehearsal so as to stage a “joint command and control drill” aimed at increasing the capability of intercepting missiles and destroying artificial satellites.

As seen above, the enemy state’s scheme to stifle the DPRK by military edge even in the outer space as well as in ground, naval and air military operation spheres and destroy the regional strategic security balance is going over to the practical phase of confrontational action.

To follow it, the military gangsters of the ROK are planning to stage large-scale "United Defense Exercises" involving the army, the police, government agencies, local self-governing bodies and even civilians and, furthermore, employ artificial intelligence on an experimental basis during the joint exercises with the US forces, increasing the present danger in every aspect.

It is no wonder that the world is now watching carefully the developments in the Korean peninsula in March with unprecedented concern and uneasiness.

With the Freedom Shield approaching, the task force of the US nuclear carrier Carl Vinson has entered the Pusan operation base in the ROK and a B-1B strategic bomber and other aircraft fly in the sky over areas in and around the Korean peninsula every day. And the US and ROK forces are waging various war drills in the air, on the ground and at sea as preliminary drills almost every day.

Under the observation of bosses of the US forces in the ROK and its army, a large-scale live-shell firing drill of air and ground forces of the two countries with the mobilization of such huge military equipment as tank, armoured car, fighter, helicopter gunship and reconnaissance drone was conducted near the southern border of the DPRK on March 6 to show the “prelude” of escalating the tension.

The Freedom Shield in 2025 will soon bring a storm of aggravated situation to the Korean peninsula as it has repeatedly undergone the worst change with all its existing features of evil.

In the world, there will be no country that tolerates such threat to its security dramatically increasing under its eyes, regarding it as “defensive” to comfort itself.

Counteraction is inevitable.

We have already made clear that if the US continues to renew its record of military muscle display, we will have no option but to renew our record of displaying strategic deterrent.

The enemy states will have to pay dearly for their stupid and reckless war drills that will invite the self-defensive, fair and square, threatening toughest response from the DPRK.