North Korea has said it cannot ensure the safety of South Korean civilian flights passing near its airspace over the Sea of Japan (East Sea). The comment comes ahead of a joint South Korean-US military exercise, which Pyongyang says is preparation for an invasion of the communist state. Washington and Seoul say the annual drill is for purely defence purposes. Tensions are high in the region amid speculation that the North is planning to test-fire a long-range missile. In the latest of a series of bellicose statements, a North Korean committee warned that "security cannot be guaranteed for South Korean civil airplanes... in particular while the military exercises are under way". It said no one knows what "military conflicts will be touched off by the reckless war exercises".
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