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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Ending Long Cycle of Tensions on Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The history of the partition of the Korean nation is an extension of the long cycle of the military provocations and tensions by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean authorities as they have steadily increased the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun says this in a bylined article on Sunday.

It goes on:

The Korean nation has lived being exposed to constant danger in which a war may break out any time due to the DPRK-targeted military provocative moves staged by the U.S. and the south Korean authorities.

The war maniacs used to describe those military drills as "annual" and "defensive" to calm down public condemnation, but they can never cover up their ulterior intention.

The on-going Key Resolve and Foal Eagle are the climax of their war provocations to ignite a war against the north and a prelude to the second Korean War.

The second Korean War has become an unavoidable thing, now that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime, barbarous provocateurs, push the situation to the extremity by resorting to the unprecedented "sanctions" against the DPRK and the war drills to invade the north, condemning the DPRK's legitimate satellite launch.

At last, time has come to put an end to the long cycle of the provocations and tensions which has lasted for a long time century after century.

The U.S. and the south Korean regime should not forget the confession made by a defeated American general that the Korean War was a big military disaster for the U.S. as it was a war fought against the wrong foe in a wrong place at a wrong time.

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