U.S. Launches Largest-ever Joint Air War Exercises in S. Korea

Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The brigandish U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers are getting more reckless in the moves to stifle the DPRK militarily. They kicked off in south Korea on Monday Vigilant Ace, joint air war exercises targeting the DPRK, on the largest scale. Involved in the rehearsal to last until Dec. 8 are the 5th, 7th, 11th and 12th air forces, marine corps and naval forces of the U.S. deployed in its mainland and the Pacific operational theater including Guam and Japan and more than 140 planes of various missions including nuclear strategic bomber B-1B, stealth fighters F-22A, F-35A, F-35B and electronic jamming plane EA-18G and all troops and 90-odd planes of the south Korean puppet air force. Across south Korea, they are now hell-bent on the exercises simulating an all-out war against the DPRK, including drills to strike the state leadership and nuclear and ballistic rocket bases, air fields, naval bases and other major objects of the DPRK and its command posts of frontline units, armored equipment and personnel and long-range artillery units. Particularly, the U.S. imperialists are staging an ultra-precision strike drill with high intensity just like in a real war focused on "removing" the DPRK's state leadership and core facilities by massively introducing the ultramodern stealth fighters. What's more serious is that the warmongers show an ill-boding movement for real military action to carry out a preemptive attack on the DPRK with the exercises as an occasion. The U.S. imperialists already issued to the air forces involved in the exercises an "order on air duty" for striking at least 700 major targets of the Korean People's Army all at once, under the OPLAN 5015 for preemptive strike at the DPRK. Such reckless war moves of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet warmongers will only accelerate their miserable end. -0-