N. Korea warns of ‘all-out war’

SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an “all-out war”, urging the United States (US) to stop military drills and what it described as “nuclear blackmail”.

In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North’s National Defense Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean peninsula and the “US mainland”.