North Korea Warns US, South of ‘Preemptive’ Nuclear Strike Over Military Drills

North Korea is prepared to launch a “preemptive atomic strike” at the United States and the South at the scarcest indication of provocation, the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) cautioned Monday.

LAGOS (Ooduarere) — Pyongyang’s routine threat is coordinated to the softart the yearly military activity, codenamed Ulchi Freedom Guardian, by US and South Korean troops. It unites countless officers for two weeks’ drills that recreate a full-scale attack by North Korea.

“The nuclear warmongers should bear in mind that if they show the slightest sign of aggression on the inviolable land, seas and air where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised, it would turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive nuclear strike,” the KPA said a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.

The North Korean military warned Seoul that “the situation on the Korean peninsula is so tense that a nuclear war may break out any moment,” and vowed to “hold their bayonets more tightly.”