Pyongyang assertion comes after Seoul and Washington introduced greater than 10 days of enormous scale navy workouts.

North Korea has known as on the United Nations to demand a right away halt to joint navy drills by the US and South Korea.

In an announcement on state media on Sunday, Vice Overseas Minister Kim Son Gyong mentioned the drills and the rhetoric from the allies have pushed tensions to an “extraordinarily harmful stage”.

He mentioned the UN and the worldwide group “must strongly urge the US and South Korea to instantly halt their provocative remarks and joint navy workouts”.

The assertion comes after officers from Seoul and Washington introduced on Friday greater than 10 days of large-scale navy workouts, together with amphibious landings, from March 13 to 23.

The allies have mentioned the workouts are defensive and are essential to counter the rising threats from North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, that are banned by UN Safety Council resolutions.

However Pyongyang sees the drills as a rehearsal for invasion.

On Saturday, it blamed Washington for what it known as the collapse of worldwide arms management methods and mentioned its nuclear weapons have been “the surest means” to make sure the stability of energy within the area.

Seoul and Washington additionally carried out a mixed air drill with a US long-range bomber and South Korean fighter plane on Friday, the newest of their sequence of joint coaching in latest weeks.

The “irresponsible acts” of the allies will solely take the regional state of affairs “to a really essential and uncontrollable section,” Kim warned.

It’s regrettable that the UN has been constantly silent on the workouts, which have a “clear aggressive nature,” he added.

Final month Kim issued an announcement saying UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres has been “extraordinarily unfair, unbalanced” on North Korea’s missile checks.