North Korea demanded Monday that US troops be pulled out from South Korea, saying US military presence in the South is a pretext for "ceaseless north-targeted saber-rattling."
"Behind the Korean War and all armed conflicts and skirmishes that broke out on the Korean peninsula for the past 70 years was the US that has deployed huge forces in South Korea to stage provocative actions," a DPRK foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying in a statement by the state-run KCNA news agency.
The statement said the US-ROK joint drills now "have become a main factor of aggravating confrontation and distrust" not only between the DPRK and the United States but between the two Koreas.
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