North Korea warned South Korea against sparking a "nuclear war" by joining a US-led international drill aimed at intercepting weapons of mass destruction, state media reported.
Rodong Sinmun, the official communist party mouthpiece said late yesterday Seoul's participation in the drill would be "conspiring with the US in its moves for a war of aggression."
"It is also a dangerous act of bringing the disaster of a nuclear war to the Korean Peninsula," Rodong said in a dispatch carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
South Korea said last month it would send a team to "observe" a US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) drill off Australia in April and that it would get briefed regularly on the initiative.
But Seoul said it has yet to join the politically-sensitive initiative, which Pyongyang believes aims largely to blockade North Korea, at a time of burgeoning inter-Korean rapprochement.
North Korea is locked in a standoff with the US and its allies over Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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