Provocative ‘Decapitation Strike’ Drills Designed to Threaten Pyongyang
SputnikNews.com
07.03.2016
As tens of thousands of US and South Korean military conduct massive war games which deliberately simulate an invasion of North Korea, Gregory Elich speaks with Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear to discuss what Washington hopes to accomplish with its provocative drills.
“[The United States] portrays itself as seeking peace,” Gregory Elich, member of the advisory board of the Korea Policy Institute, tells Loud & Clear host Brian Becker. “North Korea, on the other hand, has not attacked anyone, and it’s portrayed as being belligerent and threatening.
“[North Korea] realizes that, without a nuclear deterrent, a small country like itself, in the crosshairs of the United States, needs that nuclear deterrent to ward off any possibility of attack.”
Last week, the United Nations implemented new sanctions against Pyongyang, the harshest in 20 years, over its recent nuclear tests and satellite launch. In the wake of this action, the United States is now conducting a large-scale military drill alongside South Korea.
“This year will be the largest exercise yet held between South Korea and the United States, and they’re held in the area of the Korean peninsula. So they’re practicing the invasion of North Korea,” Elich explains. “This year, for the first time, they’re going to be carrying out a scenario…which calls for a preemptive strike on North Korea and also has plans for what it calls decapitation strikes to kill North Korean leaders.
“This is explicitly intended to threaten North Korea.”
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