N. Korea lashes out at US over military drills
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NORTH Korea yesterday ramped up its threatening language against the United States, days before the start of annual joint US-South Korean military exercises that often trigger an angry response from Pyongyang.
North Korea regularly protests against the drills, which it calls a rehearsal for war, and has recently stepped up its own air, sea and ground military exercises, amid a period of increased tension between the rival Koreas.
“The DPRK will wage a merciless sacred war against the US now that the latter has chosen confrontation,” the official KCNA news agency said, quoting an article in the ruling Workers’ Party newspaper, the Rodong Sinmum.
DPRK is short for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its official name.
“Nuclear weapons are not a monopoly of the US,” the article said. “The US is seriously mistaken if it thinks its mainland is safe.”
North Korea frequently makes threats against the US and South Korea which said on Tuesday the two will begin eight weeks of military drills on Monday.
It said yesterday that the US was “much upset by the fact that there may be a sign of detente on the Korean peninsula, thanks to the DPRK’s initiative and efforts to achieve peace this year.”
But overtures for dialogue by both Koreas in recent months have stalled, with Pyongyang recently describing inter-Korean relations as “inching close to a catastrophe.”
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