North Korean leader Kim Jong Un The North Korean leader attended battlefield gunnery training near the South Korean border on Friday. The drills took place ahead of the announced US-South Korea joint war games set for March close to North Korea’s border. The exercise simulated the assault and capture of an enemy island, reported the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The drills... 

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter lands on the deck of an aircraft carrier during joint military drills between the US and South Korea in the Yellow Sea, southwest of Seoul, on June 24, 2012. South Korea and the United States have continued joint military drills amid rising tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula. South Korean and US military forces took part in a joint base defense training operation... 

North Korea said the U.S. and South Korea are “inviting a nuclear war” by conducting military drills, even as a Seoul-based think tank predicted that Kim Jong Il’s regime may hold another atomic test next year. South Korea’s Dec. 20 artillery drill on Yeonpyeong Island near the disputed sea border was an intentional provocation, and North Korea is closely watching “the reckless behavior... 

South Korean Ahyeon Middle School students take shelter from a simulated North Korea’s attack during a civil defense drill at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. South Koreans stooped work, donned gas masks and headed to underground shelters Wednesday in the country’s biggest-ever civil evacuation drill staged amid tension over North Korea’s artillery...