North and South Korea hold duelling rallies as TENSION builds in the region
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Thousands of North Koreans gather for a rally as Pyongyang declares the 1953 armistice void, while in Seoul demonstrators protest against their northern neighbour.
A state-run newspaper in North Korea said Monday the communist country had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, following days of increased tensions over its latest nuclear test.
A U.N. spokesman said later in the day, however, that North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice.
North Korea also followed through on another promise: It shut down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South Korea used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions.
Enraged over the South's current joint military drills with the United States and last week's U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S.
Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. Tensions on the divided peninsula have reached their highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
The North Korean government made no formal announcement on its repeated threats to scrap the 60-year-old armistice, but the country's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, ed that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had said it would.Tension is building on the border between the two Koreas as mourning get under way in North Korea for leader Kim-Jong-il.
North Korea threatens to attack South Korea and 11 targets by noon Saturday also ...
Thousands of North Koreans gather for a rally as Pyongyang declares the 1953 armistice void, while in Seoul demonstrators protest against their northern ...
North Korea has walked away from the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War 60 years ago. It also shut down a humanitarian hotline with South Korea, ...
North Korea has again ratcheted up tensions with the South, cutting off its last military hotline with Seoul. A North Korean military official says with the possibility ...
A state-run newspaper in North Korea said Monday the communist country had carried out a threat to cancel the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, following days of increased tensions over its latest nuclear test.
A U.N. spokesman said later in the day, however, that North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice.
North Korea also followed through on another promise: It shut down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South Korea used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions.
Enraged over the South's current joint military drills with the United States and last week's U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang for its Feb. 12 nuclear test, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S.
Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. Tensions on the divided peninsula have reached their highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
The North Korean government made no formal announcement on its repeated threats to scrap the 60-year-old armistice, but the country's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, ed that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had said it would.Tension is building on the border between the two Koreas as mourning get under way in North Korea for leader Kim-Jong-il.
North Korea threatens to attack South Korea and 11 targets by noon Saturday also ...
Thousands of North Koreans gather for a rally as Pyongyang declares the 1953 armistice void, while in Seoul demonstrators protest against their northern ...
North Korea has walked away from the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War 60 years ago. It also shut down a humanitarian hotline with South Korea, ...
North Korea has again ratcheted up tensions with the South, cutting off its last military hotline with Seoul. A North Korean military official says with the possibility ...