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Peaceful Environment Is Essential on Korean Peninsula: Rodong Sinmun
Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- If the U.S. has true intent to ensure peace on the Korean Peninsula, it has to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and cancel all plans for military exercises, urges Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a bylined article.

Conditions for lasting peace have not yet been provided on the Korean Peninsula, the article says, and goes on:

Unless there is a change in the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, the possibility of the outbreak of a war will constantly remain on the peninsula. Moreover, the U.S., which worked out a military plan for invading the DPRK, is watching for every chance to put the plan into practice after bringing massive military hardware to south Korea and areas around it. This makes the situation on the Korean Peninsula unpredictable.

As in the past the basic factor that threatens peace on the Korean Peninsula is big joint military exercises against the DPRK which the U.S. stage every year.

The aim sought by the U.S. in its frequent military exercises on the peninsula is to bring down the DPRK by force.

Even an accidental factor may lead to a war on the peninsula as it is a potential hotbed of the world's biggest thermo-nuclear war. To hold war exercises in such a place is like walking on a sharp edge. It is clear even to a mere child that this is a major cause hobbling the efforts for creating peaceful environment on the peninsula.

War in Korea will not be beneficial to the world peace and security. The military exercises being staged by the U.S. in the region which has turned into a theatre of fierce scramble for strategic security are beclouding the prospect for peace.

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