North Korea's military has said its recent missile tests were only in practice to "mercilessly" strike key South Korean and US targets such as air bases.
North Korea fired dozens of missiles and flew warplanes toward the sea last week which triggered terrifying evacuation alerts in some South Korean and Japanese areas.
The regime said it was in protest at massive US-South Korean air force drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal, calling them an “open provocation and dangerous war drill”, and it had to respond.
