Pak Jong-chon, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party / Yonhap

North Korea on Thursday denounced South Korea and United States for extending their joint combined air exercise as a "very dangerous and wrong choice."

"It was reported that the U.S. and South Korea decided to extend the combined air drill Vigilant Storm," Pak Jong-chon, secretary of the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency. "It is a very dangerous and false choice."