North Korea condemns planned US and South Korea military drills and says the move will trigger a new arms race. State media reports Pyongyang vows to exercise its right to self-defense, linking the criticism to recent tensions and to its own missile activity.
The latest remarks come days after North Korea conducts a second missile test in less than a week, according to the reports. The US and South Korea drills are described as taking place during the summer period, but the outlets focus on North Korea’s reaction rather than detailing the drills themselves.
Across both sources, the core framing is the same: Pyongyang criticizes the drills and US nuclear-related policy plans, portraying them as escalating threats. Bloomberg and Mint both cite North Korean state media for the statements and similarly connect the comments to the rapid sequence of missile tests.
