North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which it called "the most undisguised nuclear war maneuvers," are driving the Korean Peninsula and northeast Asia toward "nuclear disaster." The letter was sent a few hours after North Korea fired four banned ballistic missiles, in apparent reaction to the U.S.-South Korean exercises. Three of them landed in waters that Japan claims as its exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said. He said that is in contrast to previous annual exercises that the U.S. and South Korea called preventive and defensive. The North Korean mission again insisted that U.N. sanctions "have no legal basis at all" and violate the country's "lawful rights."

Source: ABC News March 06, 2017 18:58 UTC