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  • 3 years ago
Outside the presidential palace in Seoul, South Koreans protest the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield drills held by their country and the United States. The exercises are aimed at countering growing threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, but those protesting believe they "could spark a nuclear war at any moment". The drills continue until the end of August.
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00:00 "Stop the practice of the Korean-US coalition war!"
00:03 "Stop it! Stop it!"
00:06 "The nuclear confrontation is a public enemy"
00:08 "We oppose the training of the Korean-US 1st MDR"
00:11 "We oppose it! We oppose it!"
00:14 "UN!"
00:15 "This practice is a strategic exercise to strengthen the operation of the expansion-containment means, which symbolizes the nuclear use scenario of the Korean-US party and North Korea, and to operate strategic assets."
00:28 "This practice is highly dangerous because it reflects the contents of the expansion of the strategic command and the expansion-containment means operation practice of the Korean-US coalition."
00:41 "This practice is highly dangerous because it is highly likely to be conducted as a practice of nuclear-three-stage attack in North Korea, including the operation of low-power tactical weapons that the United States has already deployed."
00:58 "Stop it! Stop it!"
01:01 "The Korean-US and South Korean forces that call for a nuclear war of national destruction oppose the intervention of Taiwan."
01:08 "We oppose it! We oppose it!"
01:10 "Stop it! Stop it!"
01:12 "Stop the practice of war!"
01:14 "Stop it! Stop it!"
01:17 "NATO! NATO's Korean Peninsula!"
01:28 "As such, the practice of the 2023 U.S. nuclear-free zone is a highly-complex, large-scale, and advanced-attack exercise that the United States has deployed nuclear and high-tech-based forces, and it cannot be a war practice that can be degraded to nuclear war at any time."
01:44 "Therefore, we strongly urge the immediate cessation and abolition of the practice of the U.S. nuclear-free zone, which can be further intensified and degraded to nuclear war at any time."
01:55 "Abandon the practice of the U.S. nuclear-free zone!"
01:59 "We oppose the illegal practice of the U.S. nuclear-free zone!"
02:04 "We oppose it! We oppose it!"
02:07 "We oppose the illegal practice of the U.S. nuclear-free zone!"
02:10 "We oppose it! We oppose it!"
02:12 (speaking in foreign language)
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