North Korea to US; Stop various military drills, warns of ‘retaliatory strikes’ if US commits ‘provocative acts’

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North Korea urged the US to stop its various military drills, warning the country of ‘retaliatory strikes’ if Washington commits ‘provocative acts.’
The North's National Defense Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said in a statement released on Saturday that Washington must remove its policy of hostility against Pyongyang if it seeks peace on both the Korean Peninsula and the "US mainland".

A spokesman of the NDC was quoted as saying in the statement carried by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), "(The United States) must bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the United States."

The statement added that North Korea stresses again that the US must "withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us. Dependent upon this are... peace and security, not only on the Korean Peninsula but the US mainland as well".

The remarks come after the US launched a two-day joint naval drill on Thursday with South Korea and Japan off the Southern coast of the peninsula.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington, guided-missile ships, anti-submarine helicopters as well as early warning aircraft were involved in the military exercise.

North Korea slammed the three-nation naval drill on Friday and threatened to "bury in the sea" the American aircraft carrier.

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