North Korea Threatens Nuclear War

N Korea irked by drills, warns South of n-war

North Korea warned Monday that US-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island.

The South’s naval livesire drills are scheduled to run Monday through Friday at 27 sites.

North Korea lashed out at Seoul, accusing South Korea of collaborating with the US and Japan to ratchet up pressure on Pyongyang. That cooperation “is nothing but treachery escalating the tension between the North and the South and bringing the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the Korean peninsula,” Pyongyang’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.