SEOUL – North Korean military drills organized in response to South Korean military exercises has lead the South Korean military to warn of a 'strong' punishment towards North Korea should a recent string of strongly-worded threats from Pyongyang propaganda outlets manifest as an attack, Yonhap news reported in Seoul.

The U.S. and South Korean militaries are currently engaged in a month-long joint exercise, 'Foal Eagle', to which the North responded by launching its own submarine exercises, and by issuing a threat to scrap the armistice agreement that has functioned as a de facto peace treaty between the two Koreas since the end of the Korean war in the 1950s.