A letter from North Korea's U.N. ambassador, Ja Song Nam, dated Friday and released Monday, asked Egypt as Security Council president to schedule a discussion urgently. Pyongyang regularly argues that the U.S.-South Korean military exercises are an invasion rehearsal. She said there was "no equivalency between our defense-oriented military exercises" and North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. North Korea has repeatedly said it will never give up its nuclear arsenal, which it sees as a guarantee of its security. South Korea's U.N. mission didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on North Korea's letter.

Source: ABC News August 28, 2017 21:22 UTC