[Kyodo: Korea] A top Korean People's Army officer on Wednesday criticized U.S.-South Korea joint military drills as North Korea celebrated the 18th anniversary Thursday of leader Kim Jong Il's assuming the KPA supreme commandership, the official Korean Central News Agency said. ""Acute confrontation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the moves of the U.S. and its followers to ignite a new war,"" KCNA quoted Ri Yong Ho, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, as saying in a report delivered at a national meeting in Pyongyang celebrating the anniversary of Kim"s assumption of the KPA supreme commandership on Dec. 24, 1991.
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