” We clearly denounce… provocative military muscles- stretching against the DPRK”, Pyongyang’s international ministry said in a statement carried by the state- run KCNA news agency Sunday, referring to the North’s established name.
” The US- Japan- South relations have taken on the total- formed presence of an Eastern- type NATO”, it said, warning of “fatal consequences”.
The US and its supporters ‘ efforts to strengthen the defense bloc will never be overlooked by the DPRK, according to the statement.
The latest combined drills involved Washington’s radioactive- powered aircraft ship USS Theodore Roosevelt, Tokyo’s guided- weapon destroyer JS Atago, and Seoul’s KF- 16 fighter jet.
Similar mixed activities have always been condemned by Pyongyang as practices for an war.