HANOI (Reuters) - North Korea on Thursday denounced planned U.S.-South Korean military drills as a grave danger to the region and criticised new U.S. sanctions as "hostile", urging Washington to focus instead on restarting nuclear weapons talks.
The comments by a North Korean diplomat in Hanoi at Asia's largest security forum came a day after the United States announced expanded sanctions against the North and two days after Seoul and Washington unveiled plans for joint military exercises.
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