{"id":26016,"date":"2017-08-29T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/29\/north-korea-un-needs-to-discuss-us-south-korea-drills\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:17:57","slug":"north-korea-un-needs-to-discuss-us-south-korea-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/08\/29\/north-korea-un-needs-to-discuss-us-south-korea-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: UN needs to discuss US-South Korea drills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UNITED NATIONS \u2014 North Korea wants to take its complaints about U.S. and South Korean military exercises to the U.N. Security Council, saying the annual maneuvers are recklessly provocative at a time when tensions are \u201clike a time bomb\u201d \u2014 a message delivered as the North continued launching missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A letter from North Korea\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Ja Song Nam, dated Friday and released Monday, asked Egypt as Security Council president to schedule a discussion urgently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s like adding \u201cfuel to open fire\u201d that the U.S. is staging a \u201cprovocative and aggressive joint military exercise at this critical moment of the Korean Peninsula, where the situation is just like a time bomb\u201d that nobody is sure \u201cwhen to blow up,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\t