NoKo rips US drills

North Korea warned on Monday that the unprecedented deployment of three US aircraft-carrier groups “taking up a strike posture” around the Korean Peninsula is making it impossible to predict when nuclear war will break out.

North Korean UN Ambassador Ja Song-nam said in a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the joint naval exercises with South Korea are creating “the worst-ever situation prevailing in and around the Korean Peninsula.”

Along with the carrier groups, he said the US has reactivated sorties with nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers “which existed during the Cold War times.”

He also said the US is maintaining “a surprise strike posture with frequent flights of B-1B and B-2 formations to the airspace of South Korea.”

The four-day joint naval exercises by the US and South Korea, which began Saturday in waters off the South’s eastern coast, were described by military officials as a clear warning to North Korea.