July 27 is a day of victory for the Korean people when they defended the sovereignty, political system, and territory of the newly founded Republic from the aggressive war ignited by the US imperialists.

The country which shot off the fireworks of victory in this war was the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, while the humiliating defeat was for the US which was boasting of being the “strongest” in the world.

But the US, instead of drawing a due lesson from its defeat, is given to its vicious move to provoke a new war for decades and centuries, without abandoning its wild dream of aggression against the DPRK.

A few years ago, thanks to the DPRK’s proactive and peace-loving efforts, a détente and peaceful climate were created on the Korean peninsula. But they have vanished into thin air. This is entirely attributable to the US which remains unchanged in its hostile policy against the DPRK and poses a military threat to it.

Notably, the joint military exercises conducted frequently by the US and its vassal forces this year constitute the main factor in driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war.

For example, the US ruler, during his visit to South Korea in May, has made a commitment to the delivery of extended deterrence including the nukes, expansion of joint military exercises in scale and scope, and deployment of the US nuclear strategic assets on the Korean peninsula. After that, the military moves by the US and its following forces against the DPRK are spiraling into danger.

Let us see the month of June. The US and South Korea have staged a joint military exercise, including anti-aircraft, anti-ship, and anti-submarine operations, and sea lane interception. Moreover, the US forces, air self-defense forces of Japan, and air forces of South Korea have conducted joint aerial exercises almost every day in the skies over the Korean peninsula and its vicinity.

Also in the Pacific, the strike groups of the US nuclear carriers “Ronald Reagan”, and “Abraham Lincoln” and nearly 13,000 US troops were mobilized for a mobile exercise codenamed “Valiant Shield”.

According to the agreement made in mid-June at the US-Japan-South Korea trilateral defense ministers’ meeting held on the occasion of the Asia Security Summit, they are planning to conduct a “Pacific Dragon” exercise in August in the waters off Hawaii, which is aimed at detecting and tracking the ballistic missiles.

On June 29, the US, together with the South Korean army, started the “RIMPAC” in the Pacific, the world’s biggest multi-national naval exercise to conduct the operation of searching and seizing the ship.

And from June 14 to July 9, it also conducted “Combined Special Forces Training” at Fort Irwin base in California with the participation of 5,000 troops including the US 1st Cavalry Division and 1st Special Forces and 100 South Korean troops including 70-odd soldiers belonging to the Special Forces Command of South Korean army.

On July 5, “F-35A” stealth fighters of the US Air Force openly flew into South Korea again after 4 years and 7 months to conduct joint aerial drill with fighters of the South Korean Air Force. The spokespersons for the US Department of Defense and the US Pacific Air Forces Command did not hide the fact that this drill is aimed at posing a military threat to the DPRK.

What is worthy of special notice is the fact that the US and South Korea are attempting to conduct a joint military exercise targeting the DPRK from August 22. And according to a report, the defense minister of South Korea is to discuss detailed action plan for expansion of joint military exercise in scale and scope and deployment of the US strategic nuclear assets on the Korean peninsula during his visit to the US.

The US and its vassal forces are increasing their military pressure on the DPRK. All this is raising a serious concern that the ravages of the war 72 years ago could be repeated on the Korean Peninsula.

Not only on the Korean peninsula, but also in different parts of the world, the US is conducting joint military exercises of different codenames with other countries. 

Whenever the US conducts a joint military exercise against the DPRK, it is always insisting that they are for the “defensive” and “annual” event.  But the purpose and content of the exercise alone are enough to show the aggressive nature of the exercise.

The US-South Korea Joint military exercises are totally different from the joint drills conducted by the US with other countries under the names of “disaster rescue” and “humanitarian operation”. Their underlying objectives, to all intents and purposes, are to make themselves well-versed in the war plans for surprise attack against the DPRK in an atmosphere of real war.

Take an example of “OPLAN 5015”.

“OPLAN 5015” is an extremely dangerous nuclear war plan that includes the war scenarios drafted by the US and South Korea against the DPRK, namely, “OPLAN 5027” and “OPLAN 5029”, as well as a “tailored deterrence strategy” to preemptively attack the DPRK by all means including nuclear weapons.

The US and South Korea conducted large-scale military exercises twice every year, one in the first half of the year, and the other in the second half. They all use “OPLAN 5015” as their operation manual.

Whenever joint military exercise takes place, “decapitation operation”, large-scale landing operation, and “invasion of Pyongyang” by the commando unit go in tandem with it. Even a mere child knows that the content of the exercise is a far cry from being “defensive” in nature.

In May of this year, the US ruler visited South Korea. During his visit, he reaffirmed that he will provide South Korea with extended deterrence that involves the use of all possible means including nuclear weapons targeting the DPRK.

Such being the situation, it is crystal clear that the US-South Korea joint military exercise to be held at the end of August this year will become a real war exercise aimed at attacking the DPRK preemptively, just like in the past periods.

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The offensive nature of the joint military exercise is also revealed through the scale and scope of the exercise.

Here is the data released by the US and South Korea. According to the data, more than hundreds of thousands of troops have been mobilized in each exercise, and at one time, as many as 500,000.

In May this year, a NATO military exercise was conducted in Poland with the participation of over 20 countries. This has made the news. But that exercise has seen the participation of only 18,000 troops.

What’s more, the US deployed nuclear submarines, strategic bombers such as “B-52H”, “B-1B”, “B-2”, and even nuclear carriers on the Korean peninsula every time it conducts joint military exercises with South Korea. We can easily guess what roles these nuclear strategic assets have played.

Now the US is working on a bilateral/multilateral security system in the Asia-Pacific region as part of the implementation of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy. 

Also, the US is saying that the “alliance” with South Korea will be converted into a “comprehensive strategic alliance”. At the same time, it is now pushing ahead with the creation of the “Asian version of NATO”.

Especially, after the change of the regime in South Korea, the region of northeast Asia witnessed much more intensified joint military exercises of all sorts involving the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. And the U.S. is now set on forming a tripartite military alliance.

Recently, Esper, the former US defense secretary said that South Korea should unite with the Western countries to stand up to China. He also said that South Korea should join “Quad”. He further noted, should the U.S. intervene in Taiwan Emergency, South Korea would also join the US in one way or another. This is a passage suggestive of the potentially devastating impact of the US-led joint military drills on the security structures of northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific region.

This corroborates that the joint military exercises of the US and its allied forces are not aimed at the DPRK alone.

The above facts clearly show that the U.S. is indeed a cancer disturbing peace and stability not only in northeast Asia but also in the whole of the Asia-Pacific region.

The US and South Korea claim that their military exercises are countermeasures against the weapon test of the DPRK. 

But the DPRK’s measures to build up national defense capabilities are a legitimate and righteous exercise of sovereignty to defend the national security and territory against the military threat from the outside. They have never done any harm to any country.

Talking about tests, the US has also recently conducted a new-type ICBM test launch and hypersonic missile test. South Korea as well is now hyping up the development and deployment of high-destructive ballistic missiles and SLBMs, and additional introduction of ultra-modern stealth fighters.

It does not stand to reason that such countries are picking a quarrel with the DPRK over the development and tests of weapons. This indeed is a height of absurdity, shamelessness and double-standard.

Now the US is inviting a security crisis, a crisis far beyond its control.

American attempt at military confrontation against the DPRK is a strategic blunder of dire consequences that would plunge its own national security into grave danger.

Should the US and its vassal forces opt for a military confrontation with the DPRK, they would be faced with unprecedented instability security-wise.

The DPRK is keeping a watchful eye on how the US is going to deal with the military confrontation with it, with all its painstaking efforts at security crisis management in Europe.

Gone are the days when the US used to pose unilateral nuclear threat to the DPRK. The US should keep in mind that it will be treated on a footing of equality when it threatened the DPRK with nukes.

The DPRK’s mode of countermeasure is quite obvious when it deal with the reckless moves of military confrontation of the U.S. and its followers.

The DPRK will deal with the US strictly with the principle of power for power and head-on contest.

Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK said that the prevailing situation compels the DPRK to take yet more proactive measures to permanently guarantee the modernity and military-technical superiority of the armed forces of the DPRK and that the DPRK will advance faster with enhanced dynamic along the path of building modern arms for self-defense to cope with the rapidly changing politico-military situation and all the potential crisis in the future.

The US is well-advised to learn a serious lesson from its humiliating defeat in the past fatherland liberation war, the war that may well be metaphorically termed a confrontation between a rifle and an A-bomb, and it should come up with a resolute decision to give up its anachronistic and suicidal policy of hostility towards the DPRK.

Doing so would be the only way out for the US to ensure its national security and avoid undesirable consequences for it.