A spokesman for the puppet Office for Defense Affairs on Jan. 15 announced that the office is now studying the proposal to purchase Apaches in an effort to create an Apache unit of two squadrons and would decide on the method of going ahead with the purchase of Apaches soon when adopted.

The puppet military was reported to have started examining the proposal for introducing 36 U.S.-made second-hand Apaches and worked out a plan to hold a working consultation with the U.S. over this in the future.

Such a military move timed to coincide with the action taken by the U.S. to bring back a squadron of Apaches of U.S. troops to the mainland from south Korea till coming March indicates that the war hysteria of the puppet bellicose forces going against the trend of the times towards the removal of the danger of war has reached a very serious phase.