North Korea accused the US and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with ‘offensive action,’ state media KCNA reported
South Korean and U.S. nuclear envoys condemned those tests and warned the North will pay the price for its provocations, Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement following their meeting in Seoul on Thursday.
In a separate KCNA dispatch, Han Tae Song, permanent representative of North Korea's diplomatic mission in Geneva, strongly denounced an annual resolution adopted this week by the U.N. Human Rights Council on the country's rights situation. Han called the resolution an "intolerable act of political provocation and hostility" and "the most heavily politicised document of fraud."first publicly released report
The ministry which handles inter-Korea affairs on Thursday criticised North Korea for using South Korean assets at a now-closed joint factory park in the North.
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