Who Should Stop First, Joint South Korean-US Exercise Or North Korea's Ballistic Missile Launch?

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JAKARTA - Mutual throwings that become vicious circles still occur in Korea. North Korea asked the US and South Korea to stop conducting war exercises. But the last two countries admitted to training to deal with the worst possibility, launched North Korean cruise missiles.

Most recently, North Korean foreign ministry official Kwon Jong-gun emphasized that Pyongyang would take the hostile practices of the United States more seriously as a declaration of war.

Pyongyang asked Washington to stop deploying its strategic assets to Korea. This includes stopping exercises with Seoul easing military tensions on the peninsula, as reported by Yonhap News citing a statement by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

"The US must remember, if you continue to practice hostilities and provocatives against the DPRK even though the DPRK has repeatedly protested and warned, it can be considered a declaration of war against the DPRK," said KCNA.

Joint training on the table and on the pitch between South Korea and the United States will be labeled as a demonstration of the nuclear war against North Korea.

Kwon also criticized the visit of US officials and South Korean delegations to the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia, a southeast coastal base housing the main nuclear submarine.

"This clearly proves that they have reached what stage they are trying to deal with the DPRK," he said.

Kwon strongly criticized the UN Security Council for taking matters with North Korea's recent missile provocation at an emergency meeting earlier this week, claiming the test was a exercise of "the right to defend itself."

If UN DK really intends to contribute to peace and security on the Korean peninsula, UN DKs should strongly condemn the US and South Korea for their actions to increase military tensions such as the frequent deployment of large-scale combined strategic and military assets. exercises against the DPRK," he said, condemning the UN DK as just a "way" of the US to pressure North Korea.