North Korean media criticizes us ROK joint military exercise: may lead to war crisis

[mang jiuchen, special correspondent of global times in North Korea, Li Wen, special correspondent of Global Times] this year’s first theater level South Korea US joint military exercise began on the 18th. The DPRK China News Agency and other media did not comment on this on Tuesday, but the media responsible for foreign propaganda in Pyongyang issued an article on Monday saying that the South Korea US joint military exercise may trigger a war crisis. The ROK and the US launched the exercise at 7:00 am on the 18th, citing the Korean army, Yonhap news agency reported. The armed forces of the two countries held the first part of the defense exercise from 18 to 22, and the second part from 24 to 28. The exercise is based on the assumption that the North Korean army provokes and South Korea and the United States jointly conduct defense. Novel coronavirus pneumonia is the most popular exercise in the past years. However, the number of participants in the new crown pneumonia has decreased, and the scale and content of the exercise have been reduced and reduced. On the 18th, the DPRK did not make a statement on the South Korea US military exercise. However, according to South Korea’s “Central Daily”, one of North Korea’s major foreign propaganda newspapers, “unification new daily” published on the 17th the “interruption of the South Korea US joint military training that triggered the war crisis!” According to the article, South Korea has strong domestic opposition to the South Korea US joint military exercise. According to the report, in recent days, South Korea’s “national sovereignty groups” and other social organizations have successively held press conferences, advocating that “conducting joint military exercises between the ROK and the United States and allowing all kinds of weapons to enter the Korean Peninsula may trigger a war crisis.”. These organizations also called for the dissolution of the South Korea us working group on North Korea and the abolition of the hostile policy towards the DPRK. “Central Daily” said that the North Korean propaganda media took advantage of South Korea’s internal reaction to report the incident, indicating that North Korea intended to give a warning and expressed displeasure at the South Korea US joint exercise. In addition, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Korean workers’ Party has decided to hold the Sixth Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the workers’ Party of Korea on the 19th to discuss and decide on issues of great significance in developing the Korean revolution and strengthening the party’s fighting capacity, the Korean Central News Agency reported on the 18th.