The US-led UN Command Military Armistice Commission said it notified the North Korean army the exercises were “non-provocative” in nature. The North calls the exercises preparations for invasion, and early on Monday threatened a pre-emptive strike. North Korea frequently makes such threats. High-level defections pointed to cracks in the Kim regime, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday. North and South Korea are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Source: Indian Express August 22, 2016 03:11 UTC