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Joint US, South Korea military drills will spark nuclear war, North Korea warns
Defiant North Korea led by Kim Jong Un has warned that the recent military drills between the US and South Korea could lead to an “uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war.”
Both the US and South Korea are both gearing up for war games to counter any potential threat from Pyongyang which sees such moves as provocative and hostile, perhaps even preparation for an invasion.
“The Trump group’s declaration of the reckless nuclear war exercises against the DPRK … is a reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war,” North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun said, using the acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the nation’s official name.
The piece went on to say that the North Korean army can target the United States anytime, and neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland can “dodge the merciless strike.”
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“The Korean People’s Army is keeping a high alert, fully ready to contain the enemies. It will take resolute steps the moment even a slight sign of the preventive war is spotted,” it said.
It did not provide any details on what it meant by “preventive war.”
Reports say from Aug. 21 to Aug. 31 both US and South Korea will launch military exercises- no tanks involved but with keyboards in exercises involving computer simulations designed to prepare for the unthinkable: war with nuclear-capable North Korea.
The war games, details of which are a closely guarded secret, simulate military conflict with the isolated country. The U.S. describes them as “defensive in nature,” a term North Korean state media has dismissed as a “deceptive mask”.
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