N. Korea refloats nuclear threat as S. Korea steps up joint drills

North Korea reiterated Sunday its warning to use nuclear weapons against South Korea is real as long as the South carries on with its annual military exercises with the US, calling it a “provocation” warranting a countermeasure. In a dispatch by the North’s official Rodong Sinmun, North Korea blamed higher inter-Korean tension on an “obsession with war” that is now close to a climax as S...