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North Korea has demanded that massive US-South Korean military exercises scheduled for this month be scrapped, warning Seoul that staging the war games could jeopardise inter-Korean relations, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.

Kim Ryong-Song, North Korean chief negotiator to ministerial talks with South Korea, sent a message to his southern counterpart, Unification Minister Jeong Se-Hyun, Thursday demanding that joint "Ulchi Focus Lens" drills be called off.

Kim expressed regret over what he described as Seoul's bid "to stage nuclear war exercises against the fellow countrymen in league with outsiders to bring dark clouds of a nuclear war" to the Korean peninsula, the Unification Ministry said in a statement.

"Now that your side is planning to stage war exercises against the North together with the US, we feel deep apprehension as to whether the itineraries of inter-Korean relations agreed upon by both sides would be implemented properly," Kim said in the message released here Friday.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) spoke more bluntly in ...

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