North Korea vows “merciless retaliation” over US-South Korea military drills
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military unleashed its standard fiery threats on Tuesday (Aug 22) to greet the start of annual United States-South Korean military drills that the North claims are an invasion rehearsal.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military unleashed its standard fiery threats on Tuesday (Aug 22) to greet the start of annual United States-South Korean military drills that the North claims are an invasion rehearsal.
The North’s military says it will launch an unspecified “merciless retaliation and unsparing punishment” on the United States over the Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that began on Monday.
The North Korean rhetoric came as top US generals, including Admiral Harry Harris, the commander of US forces in the Pacific, visited South Korea.
The US generals were to travel to the site of a contentious US missile-defense system in South Korea later on Tuesda.
North Korea has previously issued similar war-like rhetoric whenever US and South Korean troops conducted major joint exercises.
An unprompted direct attack is extremely unlikely because the United States vastly outguns Pyongyang.AP