N. Korea warns continued US hostility will mean 'war' - Breaking The News

N. Korea warns continued US hostility will mean 'war'

24 February

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Kwon Jong-gun, North Korea's Foreign Ministry director-general for the United States affairs warned that the country will regard Washington's "hostile action" as a "declaration of war" against Pyongyang.

The foreign ministry official urged the US to cease the deployment of strategic assets to Seoul and avoid additional joint military exercises with South Korea in order to avoid a "vicious cycle of hostilities."

This week, Pyongyang tested firing strategic cruise missiles that can travel 2,000 kilometers. Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-jong, underscored that Seoul was not the target to Pyongyang's missile launches, warning that rockets could go over the Japanese archipelago.

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