{North Korea said Saturday it had offered to “temporarily” suspend any future nuclear test if the United States cancels its annual joint military drills with South Korea this year.
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The government proposal was passed to the US side through a “relevant channel” on Friday, the North’s official KCNA news agency said.<\/p>\n
The message called on Washington to help ease tensions on the Korean peninsula by suspending all of this year’s joint military exercises in South Korea “and its vicinity”.<\/p>\n
For its part, North Korea “is ready to take such a responsive step as temporarily suspending the nuclear test over which the US is concerned,” the proposal said.<\/p>\n
The United States, which has close to 30,000 troops permanently stationed in South Korea, conducts a series of joint military exercises with its Asian ally every year.<\/p>\n
Seoul and Washington insist the drills are defensive in nature, but they are regularly condemned by Pyongyang as provocative rehearsals for invasion.<\/p>\n
The annual exercises habitually raise military tensions between the two Koreas, who have remained technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War concluded with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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