North Korea has warned that US-South Korean military exercises, which it calls "the most undisguised nuclear war manoeuvres," are driving the Korean Peninsula and north east Asia toward "nuclear disaster."
The North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, Ja Song Nam, said in a letter to the UN Security Council that the US is using nuclear-propelled aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, nuclear strategic bombers and stealth fighters in the joint exercises that began on Wednesday.
"It may go over to an actual war," Ja warned of the military drills, "and, consequently, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is again inching to the brink of a nuclear war."
The letter was sent a few hours after North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles, in apparent reaction to the US-South Korean exercises. Three of them landed in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said.
The United States and Japan, in consultation with South Korea, requested an urgent Security Council meeting on the launches, the US Mission to the United Nations said. The closed consultations are likely to take place on Wednesday , a UN diplomat said.
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