N Korea issues warning ahead of US-S Korean exercises

Seoul: North Korea warned of “unpredictable consequences” if the United States and South Korea go ahead with naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, days after launching a deadly attack on the South. The USS George Washington aircraft carrier and its battle group were planning four days of exercises with South Korea from Sunday as a show of force after Pyongyang stunned the world with its artillery strike. The planned drill has also heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing, which regards the Yellow Sea as its own ancestral waters and has refrained from condemning its communist ally Pyongyang over Tuesday’s attack. Washington has stressed that the manoeuvre is “defensive in nature”, was…

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N Korea issues warning ahead of US-S Korean exercises

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