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North Korea has said it will cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean war, citing as reasons a US-led push for UN sanctions over Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and continuing US-South Korean joint military drills. | North Korea has said it will cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean war, citing as reasons a US-led push for UN sanctions over Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and continuing US-South Korean joint military drills. |
Its Korean people's army supreme command warned of stronger additional countermeasures, in a statement that came amid reports that Washington and Beijing have approved a draft of punishing sanctions for a UN security council resolution responding to North Korea's nuclear test, on 12 February. The draft is expected to be circulated at the UN this week. | |
The US and others fear that North Korea's third nuclear test pushes it a step closer to its goal of having nuclear-armed missiles that can reach America. They condemn its rocket launches and nuclear tests as a dangerous threat to regional security. | |
North Korea says its nuclear programme is a response to US hostility dating back to the 1950-53 Korean war, which ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the Korean peninsula still technically in a state of war. | North Korea says its nuclear programme is a response to US hostility dating back to the 1950-53 Korean war, which ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, leaving the Korean peninsula still technically in a state of war. |
North Korea warned it would cancel the Korean war ceasefire agreement on 11 March, pointing to US-South Korean military drills that began on 1 March. | North Korea warned it would cancel the Korean war ceasefire agreement on 11 March, pointing to US-South Korean military drills that began on 1 March. |
North Korea said Washington and others were going beyond mere economic sanctions and were expanding into blunt aggression and military acts. North Korea also warned it would block a communications line between it and the US at the border village that separates the two Koreas. |