U.S.-S. Korea Joint Military Exercises under Fire

Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- Papers Tuesday in bylined commentaries slam the U.S. and south Korea for kicking off the Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises today.
The exercises are scheduled to last till Aug. 26 The U.S. and south Korea claim that the exercises are aimed to "cope with and thwart threat" from someone. But, this is little short of openly declaring that they would escalate military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. is contemplating forming a joint task force with the 20th Support Command of the U.S. Army as the principal axis. It also mulls staging war exercises of "eliminating" nuclear facilities in the DPRK under the simulated conditions of an actual war. The Command carried out the duty of detecting and destroying WMDs in Iraq.
The Ulji Freedom Guardian clearly proves that the dialogue touted by the south Korean authorities is nothing but a deceptive farce to mislead the public opinion.