The US switched on a controversial missile defense system in South Korea Tuesday, just hours after it flew a pair of strategic bombers over the region—a move described by North Korea as "reckless" and pushing the area "closer to nuclear war."
Pyongyang is said to have viewed the incident—which saw two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers fly from Guam to take part in military exercises with the South Korean and Japanese air forces—as "a nuclear bomb–dropping drill" at a time when Donald Trump and "other US warmongers are crying out for making a pre-emptive nuclear strike" on the North.
"The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war," the state-run KCNA news agency reported.
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