The United States and South Korea began their biggest combined military training in years Monday as they heighten their defense posture against the growing North Korean nuclear threat.
The drills could draw an angry response from North Korea, which has pushed its weapons testing activity to a record pace this year while repeatedly threatening conflicts with Seoul and Washington amid a prolonged stalemate in diplomacy.
Cho Joong-hoon, a spokesperson of South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said the South hasn't immediately detected any unusual activities or signs from the North. The drills came after North Korea last week dismissed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's offer to exchange denuclearization steps and economic benefits, accusing Seoul of recycling proposals Pyongyang has long rejected.
She also ridiculed U.S.-South Korean capabilities for monitoring the North's missile activity, insisting Seoul wrongly identified the launch location of the North's latest missile tests last Wednesday, hours before Yoon at a news conference urged Pyongyang to return to diplomacy.
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