North Korea's foreign ministry blamed the recent joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea for growing tensions in the Korean peninsula, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's foreign ministry blamed the recent joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea for growing tensions in the Korean peninsula, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the chief of the Foreign News Section at the ministry accused the US of "aggravating" the situation, criticizing the recent joint air drill with a B-52 bomber on Monday.The two countries will conduct more than 10 days of large-scale military exercises known as the "Freedom Shield" drills starting next week.
In a separate statement, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, warned that the country will see it as a "declaration of war" if the US takes military action against their strategic weapon tests. The upcoming US-South Korea joint military exercise is "designed to strengthen defense and response capabilities of the Alliance by focusing within the exercise scenario on things such as the changing security environment, DPRK aggression and lessons learned from recent wars and conflicts," the allies said at a briefing on Friday.
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