The Chongryon (General Association of North Korean Residents in Japan) bulletin, the Chosun Shinbo, maintained in a report released on the 6th that criticism made by the North Korean regime regarding the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise \u201cKey Resolve\u201d is not aimed at the South Korean government, but is rather limited to \u201cthe belligerent element of South Korean society.\u201d <\/p>\n
In an article released in Pyongyang entitled \u201cU.S.-South Chosun Joint-Military Exercise Rousing Opposition from the Chosun (North Korea) Side\u201d declared, \u201cThe arrow of condemnation regarding the joint military exercises is not aimed at South Chosun\u2019s government; it is turned toward the U.S. and South Chosun\u2019s belligerent fringe element.\u201d <\/p>\n
In addition, the article emphasized, \u201cThe North has yet to express a formal opinion or view of the new government in South Chosun; however, what is clear is that North Korea is firm in its resolve to implement the October 4th Inter-Korean Summit Agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report goes on to attest, \u201cThe North views this joint-military exercise as an anti-unification, criminal act that puts the brakes on the Six Party Talks process and at the same time throws cold water on the people\u2019s desire to unify. It also puts the brakes on North-South dialogue and cooperation and will not be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur compatriots do not want South Chosun authorities to put North-South relations in retreat or to conspire to do this, for they want to walk down the road to independent unification.\u201d The article goes on to urge, in a round-about way, for the newly launched Lee Myung Bak government not to change the North Korea policies adopted by the Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo Hyun administrations. <\/p>\n
North Korea\u2019s representative for the People\u2019s Army Panmunjom Mission and spokespersons of the DPRK’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and Foreign Minister harshly denounced the \u201cKey Resolve\u201d joint-military exercise in statements made on the 2nd and 3rd of this month and in the form of a dialogue of the Chosun Central News Agency, but limited the their comments to \u201cSouth Chosun\u2019s belligerent element.\u201d However, the Chosun Central News Agency and other press organizations criticized \u201cSouth Chosun authorities.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Chosun Shinbo stated, \u201cChosun is seriously concerned about the joint military exercise on a grand scale and the South\u2019s mindset that the ultimate goal is not defense, but the invasion of North Korea. The U.S. has a \u2018New Century Military Strategy,\u2019 involving mid- and long-range air strike tactics, in the works.\u201d<\/p>\n
The article maintains that in one way, \u201cthis joint-military exercise only instills and amplifies apprehensions within Chosun that the U.S. is continuing to pursue a hostile policy,\u201d and that \u201ctension-intensifying war exercises can only damage the Six Party Talks process without a single benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chongryon (General Association of North Korean Residents in Japan) bulletin, the Chosun Shinbo, maintained in a report released on the 6th that criticism made by the North Korean regime regarding the South Korea-U.S. joint military exercise \u201cKey Resolve\u201d is not aimed at the South Korean government, but is rather limited to \u201cthe belligerent element […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":6259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n