[PEN-L:12004] Joint War Drill At Highest Peak

["Shawgi A. Tell" <tell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pyongyang, August 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. imperialist aggressors and the
south Korean puppets are conducting the "Ulji Focus Lens" joint war drill
at its highest stage, according to military sources. The drill began on
August 18. The U.S. imperialist warmongers deployed a lot of military
aeroplanes of different missions from their bases in the mainland, Guam
and Japan to their air force bases in south Korea at the start of the
drill and staged a large-scale joint air drill in the skies above
Thaebaek, Chunchon, Phochon and Tokjok islet on August 25. Two "U-2"
high-altitude strategical reconnaissance aircraft on August 24 and
tactical reconnaissance planes and electronic warfare helicopters on the
following day reconnoitered over the DPRK day and night.  U.S. troops and
the south Korean puppets committed landing operations targeted at the DPRK
in the East Sea of Korea under the command of blue ridge, the command ship
of the U.S. 7th fleet. Meanwhile, the puppets held an exercise of river
crossing, infiltration of commandoes and blasting drills on the Han River
and other main operational zones, and mobilized tanks, artillery pieces
and troops on August 25 to fire a great number of shells and bullets in
Phaju city and Kosong county and Cholwon county in South Kangwon Province.

				KCNA

Shawgi Tell
Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo
tell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx