US President Donald Trump on Saturday (native time) shared a throwback {photograph} with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un, joking that regardless of their “unfriendly look” within the image, the 2 leaders “get alongside GREAT.”“Regardless of the unfriendly look on this explicit image, there are numerous the place we’re smiling. Kim Jong Un and I get alongside GREAT!” Trump wrote in a submit on Reality Social.Trump’s remarks got here forward of the US-South Korea “Ulchi Freedom Protect” navy drills, scheduled to happen from August 17-27, which North Korea has criticised.North Korea has repeatedly criticised the US-South Korea joint workouts, calling them “provocations.”On Friday, a spokesperson for North Korea’s international ministry alleged that rising navy cooperation between the US, Japan and South Korea was creating right into a “nuclear alliance.”“The US-Japan-South Korea navy cooperation is popping right into a nuclear alliance, and North Korea will reply to a brand new degree of risk with a brand new degree of deterrent,” state media quoted the spokesperson as saying.The spokesperson additionally claimed that the upcoming drills “differed” from workouts performed over the previous 5 years, saying they had been aimed toward enhancing the nations’ potential to conduct warfare primarily based on “new facets of contemporary warfare.”“It’s our constant precept of guaranteeing safety to reply to a brand new degree of a risk with a brand new degree of a deterrent,” the assertion revealed by KCNA added.In the meantime, North Korea performed a suspected ballistic missile launch on August 12, marking Pyongyang’s second such take a look at in lower than per week.Yonhap Information Company, citing the South Korean navy, reported that North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the East Sea. America, nonetheless, referred to the incident solely as a “missile launch.”
