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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7959216" data-attributes="member: 92282">The United States on Friday criticized North Korea's threats of a  "physical response" to US-South Korea war games, urging the communist  state not to increase tensions."It would be unwise," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said of the threatened North Korean response."North  Korea would be better served by reflecting on the current situation,  not taking any further aggressive actions or provocative steps," Crowley  told reporters.North Korea made the threat during regional  security talks in Vietnam, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  renewed US calls on Pyongyang to return to past international agreements  to give up its nuclear program."If that happens, then diplomatic  opportunities could potentially open up," Crowley said. "But we  certainly don't think it would be fruitful for North Korea to increase  tensions in the region at this point."Ri Tong Il, spokesman for  the North Korean delegation at the Hanoi talks, warned of a "physical  response" to steps by the United States, which he accused of "gunboat  diplomacy."<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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