calendar>>March 28. 2017 Juche 106
Rodong Sinmun Hits out at U.S. Moves to Form Asia-version NATO
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in an article snipes at the U.S. criminal moves to form Asia-version NATO.

Saying that the U.S.-Japan-south Korea triangular military alliance has reached the phase of full-scale activation, the article goes on:

The U.S. aggressor forces, "Self-Defense Forces" of Japan and the south Korean puppet army recently conducted a large-scale drill for intercepting missiles from the DPRK.

The U.S. is claiming that the drill and the naval joint drill with Japan are independent of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military drills.

But this is no more than a lame excuse.

The missile intercepting drill is directly related to the drill being staged under the simulated conditions of executing "Operation 4D" and deploying THAAD, the key phase of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, under the pretext of "missile threat" from the DPRK.

The same can be said of the joint drill conducted by a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier task force and warships of the Japan SDF.

The U.S. seeks to activate its triangular alliance with Japan and south Korea by paving a path for Japan to be openly involved in Key Resolve and Foal Eagle to turn them into tripartite drills.

The aggressor forces of the U.S., south Korea and Japan are getting ever more integrated in an American style so as to secure flexible interaction in case of emergency. In particular, the establishment of the MD system targeting regional rivals has reached the phase of completion.

Legal, institutional and material preparations for the triangular military alliance have been rounded off. What is left to be done is to improve its actual-war capabilities through its full-scale activation.

It is just the ill-minded intention of the U.S. to describe Key Resolve and Foal Eagle as "annual ones" and expand them as annual triangular joint military drills.

The emergence of Asia-version NATO with the triangular military nexus as its pivot is no longer tentative.

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