FUMING Kim Jong-un has slammed the West for deploying warships, planes and thousands of troops amid fears the tyrant will detonate a nuke.
The North Korean dictator hit out after the US announced it’s set to lead the Rim of the Pacific exercise on its doorstep near Hawaii and Southern California.
The war games from June 29 to August 4 will involve 26 nations, 38 warships, four submarines, nine national land forces, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 troops.
The forces “will exercise a wide range of capabilities and demonstrate the inherent flexibility of maritime forces”.
Both South Korea and Japan are set to take part in what the US Navy has branded the “world’s largest international maritime exercise”.
But North Korea has blasted the US-led joint exercise, claiming the West is destablising the Korean Peninsula and ramping up the risk of military conflict.
Ri Myong-hak, from North Korea’s state-run Institute for Disarmament and Peace, said: “Due to the aggressive and hegemonic Indo-Pacific strategy of the US, the region is being exposed to the constant danger of military conflicts.
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