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U.S. soldiers from Stryker Brigade team participate in the ROK-U.S. joint military exercise in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, ROK, March 7, 2011. /Xinhua
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has strongly denounced the large-scale joint military exercise Freedom Shield staged by the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK), saying it would increase the unpredictability of the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
The annual springtime war game included a plan for outdoor mobile drills, which doubled the number from last year, and even the armed forces of 11 satellite countries under the so-called "UN Command" without any justification for existence were mobilized, the KCNA quoted a spokesperson for the DPRK's Ministry of National Defense as saying in a press statement on Monday.
"The large-scale war drills staged by the world's biggest nuclear weapons state and more than 10 satellite states against a state in the Korean Peninsula where a nuclear war may be ignited even with a spark can never be called 'defensive,'" said the statement.
Denouncing the "reckless" military drills of the United States and the ROK, the statement said the drills were getting more undisguised in their military threat to a sovereign state and attempt to invade it. The DPRK statement also warned them to stop the moves that cause further provocation and instability.
The United States and the ROK kicked off the major joint exercise on Monday, which will last for 11 days, the ROK's joint chiefs of staff said in an earlier statement.
(With input from Xinhua)