North Korea wants the United Nations to condemn U.S.-South Korean military exercises, and has accused the Trump administration of trying to “ignite a nuclear war” on the peninsula.

Regime propagandists have issued a series of bulletins as the war games unfold that accused the United States of “driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war” and promised “the toughest counteraction” of western military power in the region. A state-run outlet said North Korea lodged an official request for the UN Security Council to intervene.