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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America SKorea: Drills sent 'strong warning' to NKorea By JEAN H. LEE,Associated Press Writer - Wednesday, July 28 Send IM Story Print SEOUL, South Korea – For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets _ dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again. The South Korean military said the show of force, which ended Wednesday, succeeded in sending a pointed warning to North Korea four months after the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship. Indeed, the shiny armada of destroyers and stealth fighter jets _ led by a nuclear-powered supercarrier that at 97,000 tons is one of the world's largest _ appeared to have muted the regime. After days of threatening to wage a powerful nuclear strike in response to the drills, North Korea issued a feeble call Wednesday for the U.S. to drop its "hostile policy" against Pyongyang. However, some analysts say it's too early to claim success against the unpredictable North. Jeung Young-tae of the government-funded Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul said the drills could provide just the excuse the regime needs to carry out another act of nuclear defiance: a nuclear test. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said no unusual military activity has been detected this week in the North, and called the joint drills a resounding success. "Throughout the Invincible Spirit exercises, we sent a strong warning to North Korea that its aggressive behavior won't be forgiven," Rear Adm. Kim Kyung-sik of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters at South Korea's Defense Ministry. He said the U.S. and South Korea showed off some "impressive firepower" and demonstrated the allies' solidarity. Another round of joint exercises is due to take place in August. However, the military parade of 20 warships, 200 aircraft and 8,000 U.S. and South Korean soldiers may reinforce Pyongyang's resolve to keep building its nuclear program, some analysts said. The Korean peninsula technically remains in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. Decades later, the two Koreas are divided by one of the world's most heavily fortified borders, and the U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in the South to deter against any aggression. North Korea cites the U.S. troops and Washington's insistence on maintaining a "nuclear umbrella" in the region as key motives behind its drive to build atomic weapons. Pyongyang is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium to build at least a half-dozen bombs, and last year admitted to enriching uranium, which would give it a second way to make nuclear bombs. What North Korea needs now is to keep testing its weapons, and hard-line moves like the joint military drills could provide the regime with an excuse to stage an atomic test, Jeung said. "I think the time for a third nuclear test is getting closer," he said, noting that it is a "necessary" next step if the North wants to improve its nuclear weaponry. North Korea has tested two atomic weapons underground, in 2006 and in 2009, and has test-fired a long-range missile built to strike the western U.S. Analyst Paik Hak-soon of the Sejong Institute near Seoul said both a nuclear test and test-fire of a long-range missile could be in the cards. "North Korea considers the joint drills in the East Sea a security threat," he said. "It wouldn't be hard for North Korea to find an excuse to weaponize its nuclear program." One analyst doubted that the impoverished North is preparing more provocations, with China _ its main benefactor and traditional ally _ likely urging North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks instead. North Korea walked away from the six-nation disarmament-for-aid talks last year. "North Korea has talked about retaliation based on its 'nuclear deterrent,' but it has to think about its relations with China and its international isolation," said Baek Seung-joo of the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. "North Korea displayed a hard-line stance but it may only be a face-saving measure," he said. "It's likely that North Korea and China are discussing resuming the six-party talks now." A senior Chinese envoy, Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue, was in North Korea on Wednesday with a delegation from Beijing, state-run Xinhua news agency said. In the midst of the military show on the East Sea, with helicopters dropping sonar buoys, F-18 fighters embarking on bombing runs and destroyers firing at unmanned aerial drones, the U.S. and the two Koreas marked the day 57 years ago this week that a truce ended the Korean War. "The Korean peninsula has not been entirely at peace for the past 57 years," Gen. Walter Sharp, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command, said in a ceremony Tuesday at the DMZ. In Pyongyang, military officers in uniforms bedecked with medals laid bouquets at a war memorial, according to footage aired by TV news agency APTN. The regime used the occasion to press for a long-held request: a peace treaty with the U.S. ___ Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim contributed to this report. 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