New: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has condemned the US-South Korea "Iron Mace" exercise as a repetition of a nuclear war aimed at it. KCNA has previously described Iron Mace as an exercise combining US nuclear forces with South Korean conventional forces and quoted senior DPRK officials as calling it "an undisguised rehearsal of nuclear war" aimed at practicing the use of nuclear weapons against the country.