An escort ship belonging to the carrier task force Prince of Wales of the British Navy, which was involved in the US-led multi-national military drills in the west Pacific region, recently entered the Pusan operation base in the ROK.

The day before the escort ship came into the base, the British replenishment tanker Tidespring entered Pusan Port, and in September the Prince of Wales will reportedly enter the waters off the ROK to conduct a naval and air demonstration drill.

Britain claims that it will be an important milestone showing its firm will to ensure the “security and prosperity” of the Indo-Pacific region.

The main warships of the British navy, which had conducted a war rehearsal in the Western Pacific far away from the Atlantic Ocean, appeared in the waters around hotspot in the Asia-Pacific region. This is by no means a matter to be overlooked.

The appearance of the warship of the old “British Empire” before the US-ROK large-scale joint military drill Ulji Freedom Shield against the DPRK is definitely a war “outing” to push the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region to the worst phase.

It is no secret that Britain, which dispatched the largest number of troops to the Korean war in pursuance of the US in the last century, has actively followed the US hostile policy toward the DPRK, acting as the first agent in the most reactionary military bloc led by the US.

In April 2024, the British Ministry of Defence announced that it would conduct regular joint military exercises with the US and Japan in the region from next year under the pretext of “tightening security in the Indo-Pacific region” and it would be a strong warning for those trying to undermine the “rule-based international order.”

And it made bellicose remarks that Britain’s defence has no limits to distance and Britain is ready to counter any threat from all over the world.

Last year, the British ambassador to Japan said that the measures taken by the DPRK and China were a geopolitical danger that harms the “international rules” and in June this year the British prime minister declared that the British armed forces would take it as their main goal to restore war preparedness.

Britain, which has justified its military intervention, insisting on the correlation between the Atlantic Ocean and the Asia-Pacific region in terms of security, is finally advancing into the Korean peninsula for its full-scale implementation.

Earlier, the British carrier task force had already conducted war drills frantically in the Indo-Pacific region with the US, Japan and other allies for several months. Now it entered the base before the US-ROK large-scale joint military drill Ulji Freedom Shield in which new manuals and methods of modern warfare are applied and even the nuclear war simulation exercises are waged. Its purpose is as clear as noonday.

At a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula is inching close to the phase of dangerous conflict due to the ceaseless provocations of the US and other hostile forces, the war “outing” of the old “British Empire” to join hands with the US is a clear action measure of its anti-DPRK confrontational stand and, at the same time, an adventurous act to realize the military hegemony of the Anglo-Saxons in the region and all other parts of the world.

The war “outing” of the old “British Empire” will never end in a happy journey.

KCNA