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United States is due to start joint exercises in early April, a
South Korean presidential security adviser said this week
according to Yonhap news agency - the latest in a series of
drills that the north has regularly described as a threat.
"If the U.S. finally holds joint military exercises while
keeping sanctions on the DPRK, the DPRK will counter the U.S. by
its own mode of counteraction and the U.S. will be made to own
all responsibilities for the ensuing consequences," North
Korea's official KCNA news agency said in its commentary.
The DPRK is the acronym of the country’s official name, the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
On Feb. 23, the United States said it was imposing its largest
package of sanctions to pressure North Korea to give up its
nuclear and missile programs. President Donald Trump warned of
a“phase two” that could be “very, very unfortunate for the
world” if the steps did not work.
KCNA accused Washington of trying to "bring dark clouds of a war
to hang over the Korean peninsula."
"The U.S. is swimming against the trend for the detente on the
Korean peninsula," KCNA said.
South Korea plans to send a special envoy to North Korea in
response to an invitation from leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean
President Moon Jae-in told Trump in a phone call on Thursday.
The Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang last month gave a boost to
recent engagement between the two Koreas after sharply rising
tensions over the North’s missile program.
(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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