JAKARTA - North Korea on Thursday accused the United States and South Korea of escalating tensions on the verge of nuclear war through a combined spring military exercise, vowing to respond with "offensive action," state media reported KCNA.
KCNA released a comment from Choe Ju Hyon, known as an international security analyst, criticizing the drills as "a trigger pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the point of explosion."
"The hostilities of the reckless military confrontation from the US and its followers against the RRDK are pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula towards an irreversible catastrophe to the brink of nuclear war," wrote an article that stands for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. April 6th.
"Now the international community unanimously hopes that dark clouds of nuclear war hanging on the Korean peninsula will be removed as early as possible," he added.
US and South Korean troops have been conducting a series of annual spring exercises since March, including air and sea exercises involving US aircraft carriers and B-1B and B-52 bombers, as well as large-scale amphibious landing exercises that were first carried out in the past five years.
The comments said the US carrier participation was aimed at triggering confrontation, saying that Pyongyang would respond to the drills by preventing war through "offensive measures".
"This exercise has turned the Korean Peninsula into a large oil warehouse that can be detonated at any time," he said.
Pyongyang, furious with the drills and called it an invasion, increased its military activity in recent weeks, launching a new, smaller nuclear warhead, firing intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of attacking anywhere in the US, to testing what they refer to as nuclear-capable underwater drones.
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