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North Korea Blasts U.S. For Military Exercise
North Korea said Saturday that the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula is a preparation for a pre-emptive strike, Yonhap News Agency reported (see GSN, March 16). The United States and South Korea are expected to start a large joint military exercise later this week, according to Yonhap. “The U.S. imperialists are planning to mobilize the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, [USS] Abraham Lincoln, in the large-scale joint military drills to be staged in the South,” Pyongyang’s Korean Central Broadcasting Station said. The presence of the carrier undermines the U.S. assertion that they are working to prevent nuclear war on the peninsula, according to the broadcast. The broadcast said the drill was a “rehearsal” for an attack similar to the invasion of Iraq (Yonhap News Agency, March 18). Meanwhile, the Pyongyang’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun attacked U.S. President George W. Bush for his “axis of evil” comment from the 2002 State of the Union address, the Associated Press. Bush repeated the comment earlier this month. In a commentary, the paper said the United States is the “ringleader of evil” and said Bush is “the greatest, intolerable insult to us and a vicious political provocation.” “Bush repeating the ‘axis of evil’ remarks is nothing but an open proclamation that the U.S. imperialists consider us a target of military attack, not a dialogue partner,” the commentary said (Associated Press/New York Times, Mach 20).
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