TOKYO (Sputnik) — Relations between the two countries further deteriorated when Pyongyang claimed it had carried out a hydrogen bomb test earlier this month.
"Continuing since the dawn of the new year provocative military hysteria of the South Korean war fanatics is nothing but a dangerous attempt to revive last August’s situation and ignite the horrors of the Second Korean War," the statement, published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), reads.
Long-standing tensions between the two Koreas flared up again in late August when cross-border artillery fire erupted along the Demilitarized Zone, prompting Pyongyang to declare what it described as a "semi-state of war."
The two countries eventually defused the tensions during a series of talks.
