Pyongyang assertion comes after Seoul and Washington introduced greater than 10 days of huge scale army workouts.
North Korea has referred to as on the United Nations to demand a right away halt to joint army drills by the US and South Korea.
In an announcement on state media on Sunday, Vice International Minister Kim Son Gyong stated the drills and the rhetoric from the allies have pushed tensions to an “extraordinarily harmful stage”.
He stated the UN and the worldwide neighborhood “should strongly urge the US and South Korea to instantly halt their provocative remarks and joint army workouts”.
The assertion comes after officers from Seoul and Washington introduced on Friday greater than 10 days of large-scale army workouts, together with amphibious landings, from March 13 to 23.
The allies have stated the workouts are defensive and are essential to counter the rising threats from North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, that are banned by UN Safety Council resolutions.
However Pyongyang sees the drills as a rehearsal for invasion.
On Saturday, it blamed Washington for what it referred to as the collapse of worldwide arms management methods and stated its nuclear weapons have been “the surest method” to make sure the steadiness of energy within the area.
Seoul and Washington additionally performed a mixed air drill with a US long-range bomber and South Korean fighter plane on Friday, the newest of their sequence of joint coaching in current weeks.
The “irresponsible acts” of the allies will solely take the regional state of affairs “to a really essential and uncontrollable part,” Kim warned.
It's regrettable that the UN has been persistently silent on the workouts, which have a “clear aggressive nature,” he added.
Final month Kim issued an announcement saying UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres has been “extraordinarily unfair, unbalanced” on North Korea’s missile checks.
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