North Korea announced today that it is abandoning the Armistice that brought an end to the Korean War 56 years ago, and threatened war if there was any effort to search its ships for weapons of mass destruction.
The announcements came after reports that the North has restarted its plutonium reactor, which generates the explosive material for its nuclear arsenal, including the warhead that it successfully tested on Monday. South Korea reported an increase in patrols by North Korean fighter jets along the border between the two states.
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [North Korea] has tremendous military muscle and its own method of strike able to conquer any targets in its vicinity at one stroke or hit the US on the raw,” said the statement by the Korean People's Army. “Those who provoke the DPRK once will not be able to escape its unimaginable and merciless punishment.”
“In case the Armistice Agreement loses its binding force, the Korean Peninsula is bound to immediately return to a state of war from a legal point of view and so our revolutionary armed forces will go over to corresponding military actions.”
