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US-South Korea Drills Could Lead to Nuclear Disaster on Peninsula - DPRK Embassy

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Joint US-South Korea military maneuvers could lead to nuclear disaster on the Korean Peninsula, the North Korean Embassy in Russia said Thursday. 23.03.2017, Sputnik International

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US-South Korea Drills Could Lead to Nuclear Disaster on Peninsula - DPRK Embassy

08:52 GMT 23.03.2017 (Updated: 09:18 GMT 23.03.2017)

© AFP 2023 / JUNG Yeon-Je US soldiers take a position during their drill at a military training field in the border city of Paju on March 7, 2017. The US military has begun deploying the THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system to South Korea, US Pacific Command said, with its first elements arriving on March 6, to protect against threats from North Korea

US soldiers take a position during their drill at a military training field in the border city of Paju on March 7, 2017. The US military has begun deploying the THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system to South Korea, US Pacific Command said, with its first elements arriving on March 6, to protect against threats from North Korea - Sputnik International

Joint US-South Korea military maneuvers could lead to nuclear disaster on the Korean Peninsula, the North Korean Embassy in Russia said Thursday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reacts as he watches a long range rocket launch in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 7, 2016. - Sputnik International

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Embassy Counselor Kim Jin Gyu said at a briefing the drills "are the most undisguised scheme of nuclear war, which could plunge the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia into a nuclear catastrophe."

The large-scale annual Foal Eagle exercises on South Korean soil aimed at practicing deterrence against North Korean aggression were launched on March 1.

Kim defended Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile launches as "retaliatory measures for self-defense" and expressed hope that Russia would demand the US to discontinue drills and relieve tensions in the region.