North Korea has been reacting angrily to a recent series of US-South Korea joint military exercises.
called for strengthening the country’s war deterrence in a “more practical and offensive” manner to counter what it called moves of aggression by the US and South Korea, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, April 11.
The meeting “discussed practical matters and measures for machinery to prepare various military action proposals that no means and ways of counteraction are available to the enemy,” it added. Seoul’s unification minister Kwon Young-se, in charge of handling cross-border affairs, expressed strong regret on Tuesday over Pyongyang not responding on inter-Korean hotlines since last week, calling it “irresponsible.”
Kwon also denounced the North for using South Korean assets left at a joint factory park, which the North unilaterally shut in 2016, without approval, pledging to explore measures to hold it accountable.
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