{"id":118662,"date":"2026-08-13T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/118662\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:44:11","slug":"north-korea-denounces-us-south-korea-drills-kcna-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/118662\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea denounces US-South Korea drills, KCNA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEOUL, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; North Korea on Friday denounced major U.S.-South Korean military drills \u200cand said they were more provocative than \u200clast year&#8217;s, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It said U.S.-Japan-South Korea military \u200bcooperation is turning into a nuclear alliance, and the country will respond to a new level of threat with a new level of deterrent, state \u200cmedia KCNA said, \u2060citing a spokesperson for North Korea&#8217;s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">South Korea and the United States \u2060will conduct the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) joint military drills from August 17 to 27, incorporating \u200bexercises to \u200bcounter drones, GPS \u200bdisruption and cyberattacks as \u200cthey adapt to North Korea&#8217;s evolving capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pyongyang routinely denounces the military exercises as a provocation that heightens tensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">North Korea also said on Friday it would further strengthen its nuclear deterrence, accusing the \u200cUnited States of pursuing a new \u200bnuclear strategy that lowers the \u200bthreshold for using \u200bweapons and could push global security &#8220;to \u200cthe brink of a \u200bnuclear war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a \u200bcommentary, state media KCNA cited U.S. nuclear cooperation with South Korea and extended-deterrence commitments \u200bto Japan, saying \u200cthe Korean Peninsula could become a priority \u200btarget of the alleged strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Joyce \u200bLee;Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; North Korea on Friday denounced major U.S.-South Korean military drills \u200cand said they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,31,61383,56846,34,8327,33],"class_list":["post-118662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-kcna","tag-korea","tag-korean-military-drills","tag-military-drills","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-deterrence","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}