U.S. Starts Drills With S. Korea as North Warns of Confrontation
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The U.S. and South Korea began annual military drills over the objections of North Korea, which called the exercises a violation of its sovereignty that could lead to confrontation.
“The war drills are an unpardonable infringement upon the sovereignty and dignity” of North Korea, the official Korean Central News Agency said today in an editorial. “The army and people of the DPRK are fully ready to fight a war,” the editorial said, referring to the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.