The drill involved the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, guided-missile ships, anti-submarine helicopters and early warning aircraft.
‘The war drills show that the US-Japan-South Korea tripartite military alliance has developed into the nuclear war alliance and has become operational in actuality,’ the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement.
If the three countries launch ‘a nuclear war while talking about ‘sign’ and ‘preemptive attack’ despite repeated warnings of (North Korea), its revolutionary armed forces will immediately mount counter-attack to bury the aggressors, provocateurs in the sea together with the carrier,’ it said.
North Korea has repeatedly condemned joint military drills south of the border and threatened counter-attacks that have not materialised. On Tuesday, North Korea warned the US of a ‘horrible disaster’ over the latest drill and put its troops on alert.
US and South Korean officials have described the drill as a search and rescue exercise to improve readiness for humanitarian disasters. Seoul and Washington last week agreed a joint strategy to address what they described as the mounting threat of a North Korean nuclear attack after Pyongyang restarted an ageing plutonium reactor. Analysts have attributed the regime’s recent bellicose rhetoric to its desire to attract the US’ attention.
‘The war drills show that the US-Japan-South Korea tripartite military alliance has developed into the nuclear war alliance and has become operational in actuality,’ the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement.
If the three countries launch ‘a nuclear war while talking about ‘sign’ and ‘preemptive attack’ despite repeated warnings of (North Korea), its revolutionary armed forces will immediately mount counter-attack to bury the aggressors, provocateurs in the sea together with the carrier,’ it said.
North Korea has repeatedly condemned joint military drills south of the border and threatened counter-attacks that have not materialised. On Tuesday, North Korea warned the US of a ‘horrible disaster’ over the latest drill and put its troops on alert.
US and South Korean officials have described the drill as a search and rescue exercise to improve readiness for humanitarian disasters. Seoul and Washington last week agreed a joint strategy to address what they described as the mounting threat of a North Korean nuclear attack after Pyongyang restarted an ageing plutonium reactor. Analysts have attributed the regime’s recent bellicose rhetoric to its desire to attract the US’ attention.