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<\/p>\nThe \u201cacts of perfidy\u2019\u2019 by Seoul had \u201cgreatly disappointed us\u2019\u2019 and represented a \u201cmilitary provocation,\u2019\u2019 a spokesman for North Korea\u2019s reunification committee was quoted as saying by state-run news agency, KCNA.<\/p>\n
The drills are a scaled-back alternative to the huge Max Thunder drills that the U.S. and South Korea have staged every year since 2009.<\/p>\n
The two countries have also announced the suspension of several major joint military exercises over the past year, including Foal Eagle and Key Resolve in March, as part of a diplomatic push for North Korea to denuclearise.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang has long viewed the exercises as a provocation and a rehearsal for an invasion of North Korea.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the spokesman said the changes \u201ccan never conceal the aggressive, offensive and confrontational nature of their hostile acts no matter how hard they may try to give (an) impression about \u2018reduction in scope\u2019 by replacing the code-name.<\/p>\n
The drills were an \u201coutright challenge\u2019\u2019 to the Panmunjom Declaration signed by North and South Korean leaders in 2018, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a corresponding response to it from our army.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Tensions have been simmering between the U.S. and North Korea since U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, cut short a summit in Hanoi in February, after failing to reach an agreement on denuclearisation.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pyongyang on Thursday threatened a \u201ccorresponding response\u201d, three days after South Korea and the U.S. kicked off two weeks of joint air-force drills. The \u201cacts of perfidy\u2019\u2019 by Seoul had \u201cgreatly disappointed us\u2019\u2019 and represented a \u201cmilitary provocation,\u2019\u2019 a spokesman for North Korea\u2019s reunification committee was quoted as saying by state-run news agency, KCNA. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8812,597,10092,7780],"class_list":["post-110651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jim-yong-kim","tag-north-korea","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}