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SEOUL, South peninsula – South Asiatic and U.S. troops began period expeditionary drills weekday that North peninsula warned could causing a thermonuclear struggle on the separated peninsula.

Despite the North Asiatic threats to retaliate, South peninsula and the United States went ahead with their first earth compounded expeditionary exercises since the North shelled a front-line South Asiatic island in November, ending four people.

That bombardment came eight months after 46 sailors were killed when a South Asiatic ship was sunk, which a Seoul-led planetary enquiry blamed on a North Asiatic torpedo attack; Pyongyang denies involvement. Animosity over the murder crowd ties between the Koreas to one of their minimal levels in decades.

About 12,800 U.S. troops and some 200,000 South Asiatic soldiers and reservists are to move in the drills, which are aimed at defending South peninsula and responding to some attack.

The main part of the drills, which module refer machine struggle games and live-firing exercises, module last 11 days, while some earth training module move until late April, according to the South Korea-U.S. joint forces command in Seoul.

The drills "are designed months in advance, and they are not connected to some current concern events," the joint command said in a statement.

Hours after the exercises started, North peninsula warned of a thermonuclear struggle on the peninsula.

"It's an anti-national plot aimed at prolonging the initiate of disagreement and enmity to realize a plot to move a north invasion," the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a statement carried by the authorised Asiatic Central News Agency. "The danger of a thermonuclear struggle on the Asiatic peninsula is deepening."

On Sunday, the North said that if provoked, its expeditionary would invoke Seoul into a "sea of flames" and move a full-scale struggle with "merciless" counterattacks.

South Asiatic and U.S. officials hit repeatedly said the drills are purely defensive.

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said weekday that North peninsula had been informed on Feb. 14 about the expeditionary exercises, which he said the U.S. and South peninsula carry routinely. He told a news word in Washington that North Korea's "belligerent rhetoric is unwarranted."

"I think (inter-Korean) ties are at added crossroads," South Asiatic Unification Minister Hyun In-taek told a installation Monday, according to his office. "It's very difficult to wager improved South-North Asiatic ties before North peninsula changes its attitude."

South Korea's Defense Ministry said weekday that there hit been no suspicious activities by the North's military. Still, a ministry authorised — speech on information of anonymity citing duty rules — said that South Korea's expeditionary is primed to push some newborn attacks by North Korea.

Also Monday, about 20 anti-war activists rallied near a joint forces command near Seoul, urging South peninsula and the United States to immediately prevent the drills and resume talks with North Korea. "Stop! Stop!" the activists chanted during the tranquil rally as a U.S. armored container passed.

After weeks of broad enmity following its Nov bombardment of the South Asiatic island, North peninsula recently pushed for dialogue with Seoul and expressed a want to return to stalled planetary talks on its thermonuclear program. Military officers from the Koreas met earlier this month but failed to attain progress.

North and South peninsula are ease technically at struggle because the 1950-53 Asiatic War ended with an armistice, not a pact treaty.

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