11.   Military drills typically draw harsh rhetoric from the North, which consider them war preparations.

12.   More war preparations were reported in southern Croatia.

13.   North Korea calls them war preparations.

14.   North Korea also chafed at annual U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises, calling them war preparations.

15.   North Korea on Thursday blasted U.S.-South Korea military exercises under way in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, labeling them war preparations.

16.   Seoul military officials deny any connection with the nuclear dispute, but the North denounced it as war preparations.

17.   The North calls them defensive acts to fend off what it calls South Korean war preparations.

18.   The North denounced them as a northward war preparation.

19.   The North condemns all joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises as war preparations.

20.   Washington has intensified its war preparations as U.S. Clinton secured congressional approval to attack Iraq for refusing to submit to U.N. weapons inspections.