N. Korea slams US-led naval exercise, vows to respond with 'deterrence of new level'

North Korea on Tuesday denounced a recent US-led multinational naval exercise as a "war rehearsal" and threatened to respond with a "deterrence of new level." An article, attributed to "a military commentator" and published by the Korean Central News Agency, pointed to the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise as evidence of deepening military cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan, and called it "a war rehearsal of aggression." RIMPAC, the world's largest international mari