N Korea Warns: US, S Korea Military Drills Pushing to ‘Tipping Point’ Of Nuclear War
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North Korea accused both the US and South Korea of pushing the region to the "tipping point" of nuclear war.
Pyongyang was furious after the US deployed two bombers near its border in a show of force that it slammed as a "military provocation".
The country warned a nuclear war "would inevitably lead to another world war".
The US Air Force bombers dropped inert weapons over a training range in South Korea and fighter jets from both countries took part in rare live-fire drills.
Reports said that bombers flew close to the fortified border, which splits the Korean peninsula into two, and dropped 900kg bombs.
Tensions escalated in the peninsula after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, believed to be capable of hitting targets as far away as Alaska.
Meanwhile, Trump's US administration and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un have also exchanged hostile rhetoric for months.
Banned from testing or developing missiles under UN resolutions, North Korea has been working to develop a nuclear-tipped ICBM capable of hitting the US, ignoring repeated warnings from the international community.
The military drill by the US and South Korea saw American bombers destroy missile batteries and South Koreans jets deliver precision missile strikes on an underground command post, the AFP reported.
But an editorial titled "Don't play with fire on a powder keg" published in the state-run North Korean Rodong newspaper said the drill making war more likely.
Describing the Korean peninsula as "the world's biggest tinderbox", the article said: "The US, with its dangerous military provocation, is pushing the risk of a nuclear war on the peninsula to a tipping point."
The paper described the exercises as a "dangerous military gambit of warmongers who are trying to ignite the fuse of a nuclear war on the peninsula".
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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