North Korea abandons truce and threatens to attack the South

So nuclear power Pakistan is becoming Taliban, Iran moving warships into the gulf, and now North Korea testing A-bombs and threatening full-scale war. Looks like our new president is being tested, wonder if he will pass the test. The world is becoming very unstable.-Lou


North Korea abandons truce and threatens to attack the South

North Korea has declared it is abandoning the truce that ended the Korean war and warned that it could launch a military attack against the South.

Pyongyang said that South Korea's decision to start intercepting ships that are suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction was tantamount to "a declaration of war against us".

The statement follows a number of missile tests and an underground nuclear test by the North in the last two days.

The statement, through North Korea's state newswire, warned Seoul that North Korea "will no longer be bound by the armistice accord" and that the "Korean peninsula will go back to a state of war".

Pyongyang had previously warned Seoul that joining the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) would have fearful consequences.
No formal peace treaty has ever been signed between the two countries, but an armistice in 1953 and a Mutual Defence treaty between the US and South Korea effectively ended the Korean war.

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