Promises of ‘Destruction’: North Korea Calls Naval Drills ‘Severe Provocation’
SputnikNews.com
13.10.2016
North Korea has responded angrily to this week’s US-South Korea naval drills, which include exercises targeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, calling them a “severe provocation” that is pushing the peninsula toward crisis.
North Korea’s Worker’s Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said a “pre-emptive strike on North Korea is a prelude to self-destruction,” in an October 12 statement, UPI reported.
“The main goal of the [South Korean] Park Geun-hye traitor faction’s commotion-making with the United States is to be equipped with a pre-emptive strike system capability that can hit North Korea in order to stir up a war,” the paper stated.
The Invincible Spirit 2016 drills, running from October 10 to 16, include practice strikes against North Korea’s nuclear facilities as well as the country’s military leadership and its supreme leader. South Korean military officials have said such targeted strikes are an option they would use in the event of an imminent nuclear attack by their northern neighbor.
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