Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | The Associated Press reports South Korea and the United States began annual military drills on Monday despite North Korea’s threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal.Such fiery rhetoric by Pyongyang is not unusual. But the latest warning comes at a time of more tension following the defection of a senior North Korean diplomat and a US plan to place a high-tech defence missile system in South Korea.
