(MENAFN) Pyongyang cautioned on Tuesday that Washington’s close army relations with South Korea are getting the area nearer to a nuclear conflict.

The district-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) debated that the continues 11-day United States-South Korean drill ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’ was a practice for “an actual war to invade the North,” also noting that “the aggressive character of the drill is becoming ever more conspicuous.”

Pyongyang further persisted that, if the United States as well as its associates instrument the values approved previous week at Camp David, Maryland throughout the present exercise, “the possibility of outbreak of a thermonuclear war on the Korean Peninsula will become more realistic.”

Leader Joe Biden welcomed his equals Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea also Fumio Kishida of Japan at Camp David on Friday. In a combined declaration, the three presidents promised to upsurge army relations as well as “bring our trilateral security cooperation to new heights.” They also destined Pyongyang’s “unprecedented number” of air-to-air projectiles examinations also blamed the Communist country of cyberattacks.

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