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North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew over the area in a training drill with the South Korean air force.
The two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed amid rising tensions over North Korea’s dogged pursuit of its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of United Nations sanctions and pressure from the United States.
The flight of the two bombers on Monday came as U.S. President Donald Trump said he was open to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the appropriate circumstances, even though Pyongyang suggested it would continue with its nuclear tests.
South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told a briefing in Seoul that Monday’s joint drill was conducted to deter provocations by the North and to test readiness against another potential nuclear test.
The U.S. air force said in a statement the bombers had flown from Guam to conduct training exercises with the South Korean and Japanese air forces.
North Korea said the bombers conducted “a nuclear bomb dropping drill against major objects” in its territory at a time when Trump and “other U.S. warmongers are crying out for making a preemptive nuclear strike” on the North.
“The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said on Tuesday.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high for weeks, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of pressure from the United States and Pyongyang’s sole major ally, China.
China’s Global Times, a state-backed tabloid that does not necessarily reflect national policy, said in an editorial late on Monday that the United States should not rely on China alone to pressure Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear ambitions.
April could prove a “turning point,” the paper said, but “Washington … must also continue to exert its own efforts on the issue.”
It was widely feared North Korea could conduct its sixth nuclear test on or around April 15 to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the North’s founding leader, Kim Il Sung, or on April 25 to coincide with the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its Korean People’s Army.
The North has conducted such tests or missile launches to mark significant events in the past.
Instead, North Korea conducted an annual military parade, featuring a display of missiles, on April 15 and then a large, live-fire artillery drill 10 days later.
“MAJOR CONFLICT”
Trump said on Monday he would be “honored” to meet the North’s young leader.
“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg News in comments that drew criticism in Washington.
Trump did not say what conditions would needed for such a meeting to occur or when it could happen. The White House said later North Korea would need to meet many conditions before it could be contemplated.
“Clearly conditions are not there right now,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said.
“I don’t see this happening anytime soon.”
Trump warned in an interview with Reuters on Thursday that a “major, major conflict” with North Korea was possible, while China said last week the situation on the Korean peninsula could escalate or slip out of control.
In a show of force, the United States has already sent an aircraft carrier strike group, led by the USS Carl Vinson, to waters off the Korean peninsula to conduct drills with South Korea and Japan.
The U.S. military’s THAAD anti-missile defense system has reached initial operational capacity in South Korea, U.S. officials told Reuters, although they cautioned that it would not be fully operational for some months.
North Korea test-launched a missile on Saturday that appeared to have failed within minutes, its fourth successive failed launch since March. It has conducted two nuclear tests and a series of missile-related activities at an unprecedented pace since the beginning of last year.
The North is technically still at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, and regularly threatens to destroy the United States, Japan, and South Korea.

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The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war,

Could this mean we're close to WW3?

@Lalasticlala

North Korea should be careful

The overzealousness of their dictator could lead to a third world war

I wonder what would be the fate of the African continent in the advent of a nuclear world war


#Fayose2019

Always on the brink. For the past 50 years.
Just get on with it.

Cos with nuclear, no one wins, everyone loses.

Russia will make good use of this situation

US can't do anything jooor
Over 50 years US has been fly those kites

Epositive:
Russia will make good use of this situation

Russia are too wise to start
Russia wanted US to start then they will have the excuse to come in to NK aid as a form of China friend
Politics ni jooor
US can't attack a country with Nukes

seunny4lif:
Russia are too wise to start
Russia wanted US to start then they will have the excuse to come in to NK aid as a form of China friend
Politics ni jooor
US can't attack a country with Nukes

the quote "he who rules america rules the world" has been tormenting russia since time immemorial

won fe take over

seunny4lif:
Russia are too wise to start
Russia wanted US to start then they will have the excuse to come in to NK aid as a form of China friend
Politics ni jooor
US can't attack a country with Nukes

urna No Dai get sense, U.S HAVE NUKES, RUSSIA HAVE NUKES,CHINA HAVE NUKES, EUROPE HAVE NUKES, N/KOREA HAVE NUKES. a nuclear war is a loss-loss-loss for all side.And for a record no sane nation can attack the U.S yet.

Ikio:
urna No Dai get sense, U.S HAVE NUKES, RUSSIA HAVE NUKES,CHINA HAVE NUKES, EUROPE HAVE NUKES, N/KOREA HAVE NUKES. a nuclear war is a loss-loss-loss for all side.And for a record no sane nation can attack the U.S yet.

The real losers would be Japan and South Korea in an initial skirmish and the big players would not let it escalate to a global nuclear war.

Ikio:
urna No Dai get sense, U.S HAVE NUKES, RUSSIA HAVE NUKES,CHINA HAVE NUKES, EUROPE HAVE NUKES, N/KOREA HAVE NUKES. a nuclear war is a loss-loss-loss for all side.And for a record no sane nation can attack the U.S yet.

Says who
Even Nigeria can attack US

seunny4lif:
Says who
Even Nigeria can attack US

U Dai find somebody to talk U.S don fight civil war, world war 1 and 2 and other wars.even the wickedness,war crimes,evil wen dai don commit no be naija mate.Do u knw wat happened to USSR and other empires they have ended ? U.S can make Nigeria unstable if the want to ask d CIA.