North Korea on Thursday accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with 'offensive action,' state media KCNA reported.
A U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber and South Korean Air Force F-15K fighter jets take part in a joint air drill in South Korea, March 3, 2023. The South Korean Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
SEOUL, April 6 - North Korea on Thursday accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with "offensive action," state media KCNA reported. KCNA released a commentary by Choe Ju Hyon, whom it called an international security analyst, criticising the exercises as "a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the point of explosion."
"The reckless military confrontational hysteria of the U.S. and its followers against the DPRK is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an irreversible catastrophe ... to the brink of a nuclear war," the article said."Now the international community unanimously hopes that the dark clouds of a nuclear war hanging over the Korean peninsula will be removed as early as possible," it added.
U.S. and South Korean forces have been conducting a series of annual springtime exercises since March, including air and sea drills involving a
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