General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) has warned the "US imperialists and the South Korean puppet" against staging any provocations and threatened a "preemptive retaliatory strike," in case the US-led war drills threaten Pyongyang’s sovereignty, RT.com reports.
The warning came after the South Korea and the United States kicked off the annual two-week Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) military exercise on Monday involving around 50,000 Korean and 30,000 US soldiers.