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North Korea has denounced the recent South Korea-U.S. "Iron Mace" tabletop exercise, which integrates conventional and nuclear capabilities, calling it "a nuclear war drill of the worst nature aimed at using nuclear weapons against us," according to KBS WORLD. The statement, issued by Kim Jong-sik, first vice department director of the Workers' Party Central Committee, was reported by the Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 2, and also vowed to bolster the North's nuclear deterrent. Yonhap and the Korea Times report that Pyongyang has similarly condemned the ongoing "Freedom Flag" air drills, vowing to "thoroughly" deter the allies' exercise with force, and has tested a cluster bomb mountable on tactical ballistic missiles, pledging to field various cluster warheads by year's end.