North Korea warned of ‘fiercer military responses’ to U.S. efforts to boost its security presence in the region with its allies, state media said, saying Washington is taking a ‘gamble it will regret’
into the sea more recently as South Korea and the United States staged exercises, some of which involved Japan. On Thursday, the South Korean military reported another ballistic missile launch off North Korea's east coast.to reinforce extended deterrence and defend the two Asian allies with a "full range of capabilities", including nuclear weapons.
"The keener the U.S. is on the 'bolstered offer of extended deterrence' to its allies and the more they intensify provocative and bluffing military activities ... the fiercer the DPRK's military counteraction will be," Choe said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. Washington, Seoul and Tokyo said in a joint statement after the summit that Pyongyang's nuclear testing would incur a "strong and resolute response."
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