(Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday that impending military exercises by the South and the United States were pushing the region toward war, days after it launched its heaviest bombardment since the 1950-53 Korean War.
“The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war due to the reckless plan of those trigger-happy elements to stage again war exercises targeted against the (North),” the North’s official KCNA news agency said.
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