"There will be physical response to the steps imposed by the United States militarily," Ri Tong-il, a member of Pyongyang's delegation at the security forum, told reporters. The military drills, he said, violated North Korean sovereignty.
We need to be ready in case our forces carrying out exercises are attacked by the North Koreans. You never can tell when Pyongyang will just get completely unhinged and act on their apparent belief that they have the right to kill our people while we can't even raise objections to those killings.