Minutes after Lee spoke, North Korea called the joint war drills “yet another grave military provocation.” North Korea threatened to launch counterattacks on South Korea and U.S. forces if they engage in provocation again, according to commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Chinese analysts doubted that China could do much to contain the North. “China’s influence on North Korea is limited,” said Jin Canrong, an international relations expert at Renmin University in Beijing. “The North is pretty good at playing off different countries, getting aid from various parties, but staying quite independent.”

via S. Korea’s president says he failed nation – USATODAY.com.

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