North Korea in threat to respond to US war games

NORTH Korea yesterday threatened the US and South Korea with a “physical response” if they go ahead with war games this weekend.

But the US refused to back down in the latest crisis, four months after the sinking of a South Korean warship, in which the North has been accused of blame.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a North Korean official, in Vietnam for a regional security forum, traded barbs over the sinking, the four-day military drills beginning tomorrow and the imposition of new US sanctions against the North.