The North Korean military has promised to take “determined and overwhelming” action in response to joint US-South Korean air exercises. According to the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), this is “a blatant provocation at the international level aimed at increasing tensions in the region and a dangerous military exercise of an extremely aggressive nature aimed directly at hitting North Korea.” . .
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“The serious situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to the ruthless military hysteria of the United States and South Korea is now heading for an unstable confrontation,” read a note in English released by the state news agency KCNA. The North Korean military conducted its own drills to simulate attacks on air bases and aircraft to “destroy the enemy’s ongoing war hysteria,” the KPA said. Joint military air exercises by the US and South Korea ended after six days on Saturday.