North Korea on Tuesday accused South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of provocative war-mongering a day after Seoul launched an annual military drill with the United States.

Rather than criticizing the joint exercise itself—as it has often done in the past—the North focused its anger on comments Park made at a meeting of her National Security Council that coincided with the start of the drill on Monday.

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