South Korea announces fresh drills with US and dubs North’s rising missile tests as ‘serious threat’

South Korea’s president has warned against the “serious threat” from North Korea over the latter’s unprecedented missile launches that he said could hold the risk of a dangerous “miscalculation” between the nations involved.

Yoon Suk-yeol called for closer security cooperation with the US and Japan against the “dangerous situation” posed by the Kim Jong-un regime, reported the Associated Press.

“We’ve seen a miscalculation leading to serious wars many times in history,” he said, adding that the North’s advancing nuclear arsenal poses a direct threat to the US mainland as well as South Korea and nearby Japan.