SEOUL (Reuters) -
North Korea said it was considering a pre-emptive attack to counter a U.S.-South Korean joint military training drill that Pyongyang sees as a "war action," its official media reported on Tuesday.
In its official media, North Korea said the drills were "an undisguised
military threat and blackmail against the DPRK (North Korea) and a war action."
The drills were a violation of the truce that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War,
it said.
"The Korean Peoples' Army side, therefore, reserves the right to undertake a pre-emptive action for self-defense against the enemy at a crucial time it deems necessary to defend itself," the North's KCNA news agency cited an army spokesman as saying.