North Korea bristles at South Korea-US-Japan air drills

Seoul: North Korea, on Sunday, blasted recent combined air drills conducted by South Korea, the US and Japan, saying such joint military actions are "the main danger factors heightening the level of the military tension" on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding region.   "We express serious concern over their hostile acts of persistently conducting provocative and threatening military actions while deliberately ignoring the security concern of the North Korea and strongly warn of the grave consequences to be entailed by them on the regional situation," the head of the North Korean Defence Ministry's policy office said in a statement released through the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

On Friday, Seoul's Defence Ministry said the three nations had held the air drills over international waters off the southern South Korean island of Jeju and involved at least one US B-52H bomber -- the strategic bomber's first deployment near the Korean Peninsula this year, Yonhap news agency reported.

The North Korean official also charged that the tripartite military alliance has "completely changed into a nuclear-based triangular military alliance". (IANS)

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