South Korea and the United States began joint exercises, Pyongyang in response closed the border and cut off the telephone connection
Against the background of an extremely aggravated situation in the DPRK, South Korea and the United States conduct joint military exercises in the Sea of Japan, BBC reports. Pyongyang, in response, broke an emergency telephone connection with South Korea and closed the border. The exercises in which 13 thousand military were involved, began three days after the UN approved new sanctions against the DPRK in response to the third test of nuclear weapons carried out by it.