(VOVworld) – North Korea has warned of "military counteraction" against recent military activities by the US and South Korea, after Washington sent strategic bombers to Seoul.

North Korea launched a rocket in a test  from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station on September 20. (Photo: Yonhap/VNA)

Two B-1B bombers flew over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of Seoul in a show of US military forces.

In Thursday’s announcement on the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a spokesman for the General Staff Department of the North Korean Army called the move a military provocation against Pyongyang, warned that such provocations could push the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the uncontrollable and irreversible phase of an outbreak of a nuclear war.

Pyongyang threatened that its nuclear warheads can reach US territory.