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TEHRAN, November 12 - South Korea's resumption of small-scale military drills with the United States violated a recent agreement aimed at lowering tensions on the Korean peninsula, North Korean state media said on Monday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - About 500 United States and South Korean marines began military drills last week that were among joint exercises indefinitely suspended in June as Seoul and Washington focused on engaging with North Korea.
The Korean Marine Exchange Program (KMEP) violated a Sept. 19 agreement signed by North and South Korea that called for a halt to "all hostile acts," said the Rodong Sinmun, North Korea's official party newspaper.
The joint two-week drills are "directly against the inter-Korean military agreement that promised to eliminate practical threats of war and fundamental hostile relations from the Korean peninsula," the newspaper said.
A spokesman for South Korea's defense ministry on Monday rejected the North's criticism, saying they are defensive exercises involving small units under the size of a battalion.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to work toward denuclearization at their landmark June summit in Singapore, where Trump promised to end joint, U.S. South Korea military exercises.
But the agreement was short on specifics and negotiations have made little headway.
Source: Reuters
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