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North Korea warns about the risk of “accidental” war due to US Korean exercises

North Korea warns about the risk of “accidental” war due to US Korean exercises

North Korea warns about the risk of

SEOUL: north korea On Monday, he condemned the common military exercises in South Korea as a “provocative act”, warning about the danger of arousing war with “one accidental shot”, a few days after the Air Force in Seoul missed a village on his own territory.
“This is a dangerous provocative act of leading the acute situation on the Korean peninsula, which can arouse a physical conflict between the two parties through a single accidental blow,” said the Pyongyang Foreign Ministry, quoted by the State Media.
Korea common US-south ”Freedom Shield 2025“The exercise has been established to start on Monday and will involve” live, virtual and ground -based training, “according to a US statement.
The exercise will be carried out until March 21, the statement shows.
Military cooperation between Seoul and Washington regularly invites the Pyongyang sentence, where the government sees such movements as a preparation for an invasion and often performs missile tests.
The last exercise comes after two aircraft fighters in South Korea, accidentally threw eight bombs in a village during a common training exercise on March 6.
Fifteen people, including civilians and military personnel, were injured in that incident, said the National Fire Agency in South Korea.
The relationships between Pyongyang and Seoul were in one of the smallest points of their years, north launching a lot of Ballistic missiles Last year in violation of UN sanctions.
The two Koreans remain technically in the war, because their 1950-1953 conflict ended in a armistice, not in a peace treaty.
The United States stations tens of thousands of southern soldiers, partly to protect Seoul against Pyongyang.
Exercises widely for freedom shield are one of the largest annual allies.
In his statement on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea called the exercises “an aggressive and confronted war repetition”.
Last week, Pyongyang slammed the United States for “political and military challenges” during the visit of a US aircraft carrier towards the South -Coreean port.