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Seoul, Feb 24 (IANS) A North Korean Foreign Ministry official on Friday warned that Pyongyang will regard what it claims to be "hostile practices" from the US as a "declaration of war" against the country. In a statement carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kwon Jong-gun, Director-General for US affairs at the Ministry, called on Washington to halt its deployment of strategic assets to Korea and combined drills with Seoul to prevent the "vicious cycle" of escalating military tension on the peninsula, reports Yonhap News Agency. "The US should bear in mind that if it persists in its…