N. KOREA: JOINT EXERCISES ‘ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE’

North Korea warned Sunday that the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises set to start Monday will be “adding fuel to the fire” of heightened tensions with the United States and its allies.

An editorial in North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper described the annual military drill as “reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war,” CNN reported.

Pyongyang said, “No one can guarantee that the exercise won’t evolve into actual fighting,” according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.