North Korea condemned combined South Korea-US military exercises that began on Monday as a “dangerous provocative act”, citing the risk of an accidental shooting sparking a physical confrontation.
The annual Freedom Shield drills are scheduled to run until March 20, although live-fire exercises remain suspended after South Korean jets mistakenly dropped bombs on a civilian town near the border last week.
That misfire wounded at least 29 people.
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Lee Sung Joon, left, public affairs director of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and his U.S. Forces Korea counterpart Ryan Donald attend a press briefing of the Freedom Shield exercise at the JCS headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on March 6, 2025. AP
North Korea has traditionally called for US-South Korea joint exercises to be called off,
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