“We strongly denounce … provocative navy muscle-flexing in opposition to the DPRK,” Pyongyang’s overseas ministry mentioned in an announcement carried by the state-run KCNA information company Sunday, referring to the North’s official identify.
“The US-Japan-ROK relations have taken on the full-fledged look of an Asian-version NATO,” it mentioned, warning of “deadly penalties”.
“The DPRK won’t ever overlook the strikes of the US and its followers to strengthen the navy bloc.”
The most recent joint drills concerned Washington’s nuclear-powered plane provider USS Theodore Roosevelt, Tokyo’s guided-missile destroyer JS Atago, and Seoul’s KF-16 fighter jet.
Pyongyang has at all times decried comparable mixed workouts as rehearsals for an invasion.