UK KFA STATEMENT
UK KFA Today issued a statement condemning the "Foal Eagle and "Key Resolve"
War exercises.
The UK Korean Friendship Association protests very strongly about the decision of the US and south Korean authorities to stage the "Foal Eagle" and "Key Resolve" exercises in south Korea from March 8 to March 18th.
The exercises involve 18,000 troops as well civilians and are clearly aimed at invading the DPRK.
These exercises come at a time when the US imperialists and south Korean puppets are increasing tension by staging provocations in the West Sea and insisting on the bogus "northern limit line".Also they come on top of statements from the south Korean puppet regime about overthrowing the DPRK governments.
The "Foal Eagle" and "Key Resolve" exercises prove the falsity of the so called "dialogue" being continually touted by the US imperialists and others.

These exercises are aimed at intimidating the DPRK to stop it fully exercising it sovereign rights as well to stifle its socialist system by force of aims.

UK KFA fully supports the statement of the Korean Peoples Army made on February 25th

We demand that the "Foal Eagle" and "Key Resolve" exercises are cancelled
forthwith and that the US troops are witdrawn from south Korea..
Appendix Statment of KPA general staff
KPA General Staff Blasts US-S. Korea Military Exercises
Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialists and the warmongers of the south Korean puppet army finally announced that they would stage the DPRK-targeted Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises from March 8. In this regard a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army released the following statement Thursday:

Massively involved in the exercises will be more than 18,000-strong forces including over 10,000 U.S. imperialist aggression troops present in south Korea and ultra-modern military hardware as well as army corps-level, fleet command-level and flying corps-level units of the south Korean puppet army and even civilian forces. The enemies describe the exercises as "annual ones" and "defensive" but they are pilot operations and nuclear war exercises aimed to preempt a surprise attack on the DPRK, to all intents and purposes.

From the outset of the year the warmongers of the south Korean puppet army in collusion with the U.S. imperialists have frantically staged mid-winter tactical exercise, large-scale coordinated ground exercise and other exercises of various codenames, while talking about a "preemptive attack" over self-defensive nuclear deterrent of the DPRK. This is by no means accidental.

This brought to light their true colors as war fanatics keen to bring dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the inviolable land, while seeking escalated tensions and confrontation only.

We will not remain a passive onlooker to this grave situation created by the provokers.

If the U.S. imperialists and south Korean warmongers launch the joint military exercises for aggression, ignoring our repeated warnings, we will react to them with our powerful military counteraction, and if necessary, mercilessly destroy the bulwark of aggression by mobilizing all the offensive and defensive means including nuclear deterrent.