Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM N Korea says US drills pushing situation to ‘extreme red-line’ Pyongyang threatens ‘toughest reaction’ to US expanding joint military exercises with South Korea. ADVERTISEMENT North Korea has lambasted South Korea and the United States over their joint military exercises, saying the drills have pushed the situation on the Korean peninsula to an “extreme red line” and have threatened to turn the region into a “huge war arsenal and a more critical war zone”. ADVERTISEMENT The North Korean statement, issued on Thursday, also threatened the “toughest” response and said Pyongyang was not interested in dialogue as long as Washington pursued what it called “hostile” policies. ADVERTISEMENT The warning from Pyongyang came days after the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, visited Seoul and pledged to increase Washington’s deployme