NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News)
By KWANG-TAE KIM
July 24, 2010
North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a “powerful” nuclear response from Pyongyang.
North Korea routinely threatens war when South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an attack on the North. The latest threat comes amid increased tensions on the peninsula over the deadly sinking of South Korean warship that Seoul and Washington blame on Pyongyang.
The allies’ defense chiefs announced earlier in the week that they would stage the drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its “aggressive” behavior. …
In Hanoi, a North Korean spokesman for the delegation attending a regional security conference warned Friday that the drills would draw a “physical response” from Pyongyang. …
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