SEOUL: North Korea could deliver a “fatal blow” to the 2018 Winter Olympics if it launches a missile or stages another provocation before the event, a South Korean minister warned on Thursday.

Unification Minister Cho Myoung-Gyon made the remarks as reports said annual South Korea-US military exercises might be postponed to avoid coinciding with the winter games and paralympics in South Korea’s Pyeongchang.

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