from Sputnik News:
North Korea is projecting confidence in its response to large-scale US-led military drills this week, according to one analyst.
The United States and allied countries joined with Seoul this week to launch a massive joint military exercise in South Korea.
The operation, known as “Freedom Shield,” takes place annually, although observers say this year’s efforts were much larger than in years past. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), typically known in the West as North Korea, lambasted the “provocative large-scale joint military exercises” which the country claimed demonstrate “more clearly who is the [one] threatening humanity with nuclear weapons.”
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Although promoted as a show of military strength, peace activist KJ Noh insisted the massive drills are instead a sign of “the desperation of the United States to trigger a war” in an interview on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Tuesday.
“On the one hand it’s like that bar drunk who, as the bar is closing, decides that he’s not going to go home without a fight and he challenges everybody to a fight,” said Noh to host Garland Nixon. “But another way of thinking about it is that the US sincerely believes – the ruling elite sincerely believe that they can wage a multi-front war.”
“So here we see that the US wants war with China [and] is clearly escalating towards doing everything logistically, operationally, tactically, to prepare for war,” he added. “And the question simply becomes where, how and when.”
The United States has made no secret that it sees China’s economic rise as a major threat to its own global hegemony. Recent US defense authorization bills have devoted significant resources towards alleged “unprecedented threats” from the Asian world power. Meanwhile the recent announcement of a major restructuring within the US Army revealed efforts are being made to strengthen US forces in the Pacific.
