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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/n-korea-warning-over-south-drills.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="South Korea has been warned that it is risking nuclear war by completing the drills (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-n-korea-warning-over-south-drills.jpg" alt="South Korea has been warned that it is risking nuclear war by completing the drills (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>South Korean and US troops have begun annual military drills, which North Korea warns could trigger a nuclear war on the divided peninsula.</p>
<p>Despite the North Korean threats to retaliate, South Korea and the United States went ahead with their first major combined military exercises since the North shelled a frontline South Korean island in November, killing four people.</p>
<p>About 12,800 US troops and some 200,000 South Korean soldiers and reservists are taking part in the drills, which are aimed at defending South Korea and responding to any attack.</p>
<p>The main part of the drills, which will involve computer war games and live-firing exercises, will last 11 days, while some field training will continue until late April, according to the South Korea-US joint forces command in Seoul.</p>
<p>The drills &#8220;are planned months in advance, and they are not connected to any current world events&#8221;, the joint command said in a statement.</p>
<p>Hours after the exercises started, North Korea warned of a nuclear war on the peninsula.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an anti-national scheme aimed at prolonging the stage of confrontation and tension to realise a plot to start a northward invasion,&#8221; the North&#8217;s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the North said that, if provoked, its military would turn Seoul into a &#8220;sea of flames&#8221; and start a full-scale war with &#8220;merciless&#8221; counter-attacks.</p>
<p>South Korean and US officials have repeatedly said the drills are purely defensive.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to see improved South-North Korean ties before North Korea changes its attitude,&#8221; South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek said, according to his office.</p>
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