North Korea accused the US of creating a situation in which “a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment”, as hundreds of American troops began 11 days of joint military exercises with its southern neighbour.
Roughly 1,000 American service members and about 500 South Korean troops will carry out Operation Max Thunder, a training exercise involving aircraft carriers, fighter jets and military drills.
The Trump administration has stressed it is a routine drill, planned months ago.
However, North Korea said that the presence of US troops in the Korean peninsula had created a situation in which “a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment.
Kim In-Ryong, the country’s ambassador the the UN, said Pyongyang was “ready to react to any mode of war desired to the US.”
North Korea will continue to test missiles frequently, despite escalating tensions with the US, according to the secretive communist state's Foreign Ministry.
“We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis,” Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol said.
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