North Korea Calls US, South Korean Joint Drills "Provocative", Says Nuclear War Could Be Ignited With A Spark

North Korea called the military drills a source of regional instability and claimed that the United States is an "arch-criminal" that is threatening mankind with nukes.

PYONGYANG - A spokesman for the North Korean Ministry of Defense has denounced what it calls "frantic" and "provocative" large-scale joint military drills between the United States and South Korea

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A statement released by North Korean state-run media said that the military drills were a source of regional instability and claimed that the United States is an "arch-criminal" that is threatening mankind with nukes. 

"The large-scale war drills staged by the world's biggest nuclear weapons state and more than 10 satellite states against a state in the Korean peninsula where a nuclear war may be ignited even with a spark, can never be called defensive", the statement read. 

North Korea Denounces US, South Korean Joint Military Drills, “Severely Warns” Them To Stop “Provocation” Or It “Will Be Made To Pay Dear Price”