North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint air drills among South Korea, the United States and Japan.

By bno - Taipei Bureau In a sharp response to joint military exercises involving South Korea, the United States, and Japan, North Korea has vowed to 'more intensively' exercise its right to self-defence.

North Korea warned Friday it will "more intensively" exercise the right to self-defense, denouncing South Korea, the United States and Japan for staging combined air drills, involving U.S. B-1B bombers.

Investigators found bird feathers and blood in the two engines of the Boeing jet that crashed in South Korea on Dec. 29, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday. Jeju Air 7C2216, which departed from the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan county in southwestern South Korea,

A Jeju Air aircraft crashed in South Korea on December 29, killing 179 people. Bird feathers and blood has been found in the engines of the plane.