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North Korea threatened South Korea with a "serious security crisis" for proceeding with joint military drills with the US. A senior North Korean official said the South had missed an opportunity to improve inter-Korean relations by responding to North Korea's "good faith with hostile acts." The statement came after North Korea demanded the US withdraw its forces from the Korean peninsula and warned South Korea and the US would face greater security threats for conducting joint military exercises.

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Presented by Rishi Sudhanshu Pandey

North Korea threatened South Korea with a "serious security crisis" for proceeding with joint military drills with the US. A senior North Korean official said the South had missed an opportunity to improve inter-Korean relations by responding to North Korea's "good faith with hostile acts." The statement came after North Korea demanded the US withdraw its forces from the Korean peninsula and warned South Korea and the US would face greater security threats for conducting joint military exercises.

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 Seoul will face a "serious security crisis" for going ahead
with its joint military drills with the United States, a senior
Pyongyang official threatened Wednesday, saying the
South had missed its opportunity to improve inter-Korean
ties.

 The statement by Kim Yong Chol came just a day after Kim
Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un,
demanded Washington withdraw its forces from the
peninsula.
 The US and South Korean militaries began their preliminary
training Tuesday in the run-up to next week's yearly
summertime exercise, which the nuclear-armed North has
long considered a rehearsal for invasion.

 Pyongyang will make the Seoul authorities realise "what a


serious security crisis they will face", Kim Yong Chol said in
a statement released by the official KCNA news agency.
 The South had answered the North's "good faith with
hostile acts" after "letting go the opportunity for improved
inter-Korean relations", he added.

 Kim is a senior official in the ruling Workers' Party and


acted as leader Kim Jong Un's envoy ahead of a summit
in Hanoi in 2019, meeting then-president Donald Trump in
Washington.
 The summit collapsed over sanctions relief and what the
nuclear-armed North would be willing to give up in return, and
talks have since been largely at a standstill, while Pyongyang
has retreated behind a self-imposed curtain of coronavirus
isolation.

 Just last month, Seoul and Pyongyang restored cross-border


communications that were severed more than a year ago,
announcing their leaders had agreed to work on improving ties.
 But on Tuesday afternoon, Seoul's defence ministry said the
North did not answer the daily calls made between the two
countries on their military hotline, just two weeks after the link
was reconnected.

 That came after Kim Yo Jong -- a key adviser to her brother --


called Seoul authorities "perfidious" for going ahead with the
joint exercises, warning the two allies would face greater
security threats.
 Seoul and Washington are treaty allies, with around 28,500
American troops stationed in South Korea to defend it
against its neighbour, which invaded in 1950.

 They have already scaled back their annual joint military


exercises significantly to facilitate nuclear talks with
Pyongyang.
 But Kim Yo Jong said: "For peace to settle on the peninsula, it is
imperative for the US to withdraw its aggression troops and war
hardware deployed in south Korea", adding the North would
strengthen its defence and pre-emptive strike capabilities.
 Responding to her statement, US State Department spokesman
Ned Price stressed that the joint drills were "purely defensive in
nature".

 “As we have long maintained, the United States harbours no


hostile intent towards the DPRK," he said, using the North's official

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