SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday (Aug 22) criticised recent US arms sales in Asia, calling a deal to deliver Apache helicopters to South Korea a "reckless, provocative act" and adding Pyongyang would build up its own forces in response. "We strongly oppose and reject the US and its vassal forces' arms buildup," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to the South. "This is a reckless, provocative act of deliberately increasing the security instability in the region," it