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North Korea put its military on combat alert Monday as US and South Korean forces started a major joint exercise which the communist nation has branded as a prelude to invasion.
The North, which is preparing what it calls a satellite launch, also warned that any attempt to shoot down the rocket would be treated as an act of war.
It then severed its last communications channels with South Korea, leaving more than 700 people unable to cross the heavily-fortified border to a joint industrial complex at Kaesong just to its north.
The moves follow a threat last week against South Korean civilian airlines using the North’s airspace, which has forced them to re-route flights.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak was briefed Monday by his top security officials on the latest statements.
Pyongyang has repeatedly accused Seoul and Washington of using the annual exercises, which this year will last until March 20, as a pretext to launch an attack on it — a claim denied by the United States and the South.
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In a statement carried by the state Korean Central News Agency, the Korean People’s Army described the exercises as “unprecedented in the number of the aggressor forces involved and in their duration.”
