![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/north-korea-warns-of-more-powerful-follow-up-after-us-south-korea-drills/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_SKOREA-US-MILITARY-EXERCISE.jpg&description=North Korea has said that it was ready for "more powerful follow-up measures" if the United States and South Korea continue their recently ramped up military exercisesThe US and South Korea have intensified their joint drillsNorth Korea has warned of "more powerful follow-up measures" in response after the United States intensified joint military exercises with South Korea. The secretive state has claimed that the military activities by its neighbours in the south and the Americans are practice ahead of a potential invasion. Aerial drills involving more than 200 warplanes, including their advanced F-35 fighter jets, have been carried out by the US and South Korea as they step up their defence posture in the face of North Korea's increased weapons testing and growing nuclear threat. North Korea has ramped up its missile launching to a record pace this year, firing more than 40 ballistic weapons, including developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles and an intermediate-range missile fired over Japan. The North has punctuated those tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorises pre-emptive nuclear attacks in loosely defined crisis situations. Aerial drills involving more than 200 warplanes have taken place between the US and South Korea ( Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock) The US and South Korea have resumed large-scale military drills this year after downsizing or suspending them in past years as part of efforts to create diplomatic space with Pyongyang and because of the pandemic. The United States and South Korea's "Vigilant Storm" air force drills, which are to continue through Friday, came after South Korea completed its annual 12-day "Hoguk" field exercises that officials say also involved an unspecified number of American troops. North Korea's latest statement came just days after the country fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, extending a barrage of launches since late September. Some of those launches have been descr){kind=link}
North Korea has said that it was ready for “more powerful follow-up measures” if the United States and South Korea continue their recently ramped up military exercises
North Korea has warned of “more powerful follow-up measures” in response after the United States intensified joint military exercises with South Korea.
The secretive state has claimed that the military activities by its neighbours in the south and the Americans are practice ahead of a potential invasion.
Aerial drills involving more than 200 warplanes, including their advanced F-35 fighter jets, have been carried out by the US and South Korea as they step up their defence posture in the face of North Korea’s increased weapons testing and growing nuclear threat.
North Korea has ramped up its missile launching to a record pace this year, firing more than 40 ballistic weapons, including developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles and an intermediate-range missile fired over Japan.