Pyongyang assertion comes after Seoul and Washington introduced greater than 10 days of huge scale navy workout routines.

North Korea has referred to as on the United Nations to demand a direct halt to joint navy drills by america and South Korea.

In a press release on state media on Sunday, Vice Overseas Minister Kim Son Gyong stated the drills and the rhetoric from the allies have pushed tensions to an “extraordinarily harmful degree”.

He stated the UN and the worldwide group “should strongly urge the US and South Korea to instantly halt their provocative remarks and joint navy workout routines”.

The assertion comes after officers from Seoul and Washington introduced on Friday greater than 10 days of large-scale navy workout routines, together with amphibious landings, from March 13 to 23.

The allies have stated the workout routines are defensive and are essential to counter the rising threats from North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, that are banned by UN Safety Council resolutions.

However Pyongyang sees the drills as a rehearsal for invasion.

On Saturday, it blamed Washington for what it referred to as the collapse of worldwide arms management techniques and stated its nuclear weapons have been “the surest manner” to make sure the steadiness of energy within the area.

Seoul and Washington additionally performed a mixed air drill with a US long-range bomber and South Korean fighter plane on Friday, the most recent of their collection of joint coaching in latest weeks.

The “irresponsible acts” of the allies will solely take the regional scenario “to a really vital and uncontrollable section,” Kim warned.

It’s regrettable that the UN has been constantly silent on the workout routines, which have a “clear aggressive nature,” he added.

Final month Kim issued a press release saying UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres has been “extraordinarily unfair, unbalanced” on North Korea’s missile assessments.