North Korea Bashes US for Conducting Artillery Drill

It must have been a good exercise to warrant this much attention from the North Koreans:

North Korea leveled a verbal attack on the United States Saturday for South Korean artillery drills near the disputed border in the Yellow Sea.

In a statement, the Panmunjom mission of the Korean People’s Army claimed that the U.S. is behind the “military provocations,” as it seeks to maintain the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de-facto sea border between the two Koreas.

“The U.S. is hurling the puppet forces into ceaseless arms build-up and military provocations in the above-said waters in a sinister bid to preserve the illegal ‘northern limit line’, to begin with,” an unnamed spokesman said, according to Korean Central News Agency.

The NLL was drawn by the U.S.-led U.N. forces at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War but the North has refused to acknowledge it.

It’s a “foolish intention to preserve the waning justification” for the U.N. Command, the North’s military said.

“These reckless military provocations of the U.S. will only precipitate its doomsday,” read the statement.  [Yonhap]