South Korean and American Marines Joint Exercise
1. The amphibious vehicle AAV-7 31 of the US Marine Corps Expeditionary Unit, deployed from Okinawa, Japan, comes ashore in Pohang, 29 March 2012. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
2. American marines on the shore in Pohang. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
3. Exercises include naval and land forces (Key Resolve) and air force (Foal Eagle) maneuvers. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
4. The DPRK State Defense Committee called the exercise the “Secret Declaration of War”. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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6. US Marines land on the beach under the guise of AAV-7. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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8. American Marines land on the beach in Pohang. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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10. AAV-7 amphibious vehicles approach the shore. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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14. In case the US and South Korean troops invade the territory of the DPRK, Kim Jong-Eun ordered his units to be ready for a "retaliatory strike." (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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18. Amphibious vehicle AAV-7 is coming to shore. Such vehicles were used by US troops during the invasion of Grenada and in Iraq. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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20. Halt after landing at Pohane. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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23. The Central Telegraph Agency of the DPRK (CTC) on Monday said that the situation in the Korean Peninsula region "has already gotten out of control." The agency demanded that South Korea and the United States "take into account the disastrous consequences of their unwise military provocations." (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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25. The TsTAK emphasizes that "the war on the Korean Peninsula will affect not only the peninsula itself, but the whole world, and stability in the region as a whole." (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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29. The 1950-1953 Korean War ended with the signing of an armistice agreement and has not been formally completed yet. The United States, whose troops fought under the UN flag in Korea, refuse to sign a peace agreement with North Korea and officially recognize it, retaining around 28 thousands of servicemen in the south of the Korean Peninsula. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
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