08 May 2017

News Story: DPRK says latest U.S.-South Korea joint drills "unprecedentedly hideous"

US President Donald Trump (File Photo)
PYONGYANG, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Saturday that the latest U.S.-South Korean joint military drills were "unprecedentedly hideous and most adventurous ones" in several decades.

In a military commentary, the official Korean Central News Agency said the United States and South Korea have made it public that all their joint military drills aimed to "remove the leadership" of the DPRK and "bring down its system."

These exercises had "thrown away their deceptive veils as annual drills and defensive ones," it said.

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