Joint Military Drills Could Spark War, North Korea Warns

North Korea's foreign minister says the U.S.-South Korean military drills that began this week are "unprecedentedly provocative" and could set off a war on the Korean peninsula. Speaking Tuesday from Geneva at the U.N.-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, Ri Su Yong also appeared to repeat Pyongyang's threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Washington. "The DPRK cannot but bolster its nuclear deterrent capability to cope with the ever-increasing nuclear...

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