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"FRANCE C.P.E. PROTESTS"
(March 23, 2006)
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N. Korea Blasts U.S., S. Korea Military Drills
Fox News/AP ^ | 3/25/06 | ap
Posted on 03/24/2006 11:56:19 PM PST by txroadkill
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the United States began joint military exercises on Saturday amid angry protests by North Korea, which has denounced the annual exercises as preparations for a pre-emptive nuclear attack.
About 25,000 U.S. troops and an undisclosed number of South Korean soldiers will participate in the weeklong exercises, which involve a computer-simulated war game and field exercises aimed at improving U.S. and South Korean forces' defense capabilities, according to the U.S. military command.
"The purpose of the drill is defensive," said Kim Yong-kyu, a spokesman for the U.S. military command in Seoul, dismissing as "nonsense" North Korea's claims that the military exercises are preparations to invade the communist state.
North Korea has stepped up its anti-U.S. rhetoric over the exercises, vowing to take an unspecified strong measure of self-defense and suggesting it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States.
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Looks like the 'youts' are back.
Any excuse to riot, I guess.
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