North Korea denounced the upcoming joint South Korean and US military drills and said it would “wipe out” countries with nuclear weapons if they threatened the communist state, KCNA news agency said on Sunday.
South Korean and US forces on Monday start joint computer simulation and communication drills that come in the wake of rare conciliatory moves by Pyongyang, which this month released two US journalists.
“Should the US imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group threaten the DPRK (North Korea) with nukes, it will retaliate against them with nukes,” KCNA quoted a military official as saying. Lee Myung-bak is South Korea’s president.
“The US imperialists and the Lee Myung-bak group should clearly understand that it is the iron will and resolute stand of the Korean People’s Army to go into action anytime to mercilessly wipe out the aggressors,” the official said.
The US stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to support the country’s 670,000 soldiers.
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