PYONGYANG, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday lashed out at the growing U.S. military presence in South Korea, describing U.S. troops in the South as a "time bomb."
A spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea accused the United States of sending a Patriot PAC-3 anti-ballistic missile battery for a military drill from Okinawa to a U.S. Air Force base in the city of Kunsan in South Korea, in the wake of a joint decision by Seoul and Washington to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on the Korean Peninsula.
The drill was aimed at rapidly shipping the missile interceptor from Japan to South Korea should a conflict happen on the peninsula, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
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