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SEOUL — North Korea said on Wednesday (March 12) a recent accidental bombing of a civilian area by South Korean fighter jets in training shows a mishap could trigger a new armed conflict on the Korean peninsula, its state news agency reported.
Officials inspect an area with damaged buildings after South Korea's Air Force said that Mk82 bombs fell from a KF-16 jet outside the shooting range during joint live-fire exercises near the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas in Pocheon, South Korea on March 6.
SEOUL — North Korea said on Wednesday a recent accidental bombing ofshows a mishap could trigger a new armed conflict on the Korean peninsula, its state news agency reported. Two South Korean jets mistakenly dropped eight air-to-surface bombs on a village near the military border with North Korea on Thursday, injuring 29 civilians in an accident the South's military said was likely caused by pilot error."We don't need to explain how the situation would have unfolded if the bombs had dropped further north and crossed our border," KCNA state news agency said. "It is not at all an unreasonable imagination... that an accidental spark could engulf the Korean peninsula and the world in a new armed conflict in response to the malicious large joint military drills by the US and South Korea," KCNA said. South Korean and US militaries began annual Freedom Shield drills on Monday to run until March 20, but they suspended live-fire exercises following the bombing accident. North Korea routinely denounces joint military drills by the allies, calling them a dress rehearsal for war against it. South Korea rejects that accusation, saying the drills are defencive and aimed at maintaining readiness against possible North Korean aggression."This incident is an example of how the various war demonstrations by the US and its followers targeting us are not for 'peace and stability in South Korea' as they claim but an extremely dangerous and unamusing acts that can breed an imminent crisis and the world's first nuclear war," KCNA said. It warned of taking "merciless action" without notice if needed because of its enemies' military activities.
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