SEOUL — North Korea on Tuesday warned the United States of a “horrible disaster” and put its troops on alert over a major naval drill involving a US aircraft carrier alongside South Korean and Japanese vessels.
The warning came after Seoul and Washington last week signed a new joint strategy to counter what they called the growing threat of a North Korean nuclear attack after the communist country restarted an aging plutonium reactor.
That accord also drew a sharp rebuke, with analysts attributing the isolated regime’s recent bellicose rhetoric to its desire to attract the United States’ attention and draw it back into dialogue.
The planned drill in waters around the Korean Peninsula involves South Korea, Japan and the United States, which has deployed the nuclear-powered carrier USS George Washington.
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