N Korea Rejects 1953 Armistice

[UNTflyer]

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.

“The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a statement today. Any attempt to inspect North Korean vessels will be countered with “prompt and strong military strikes.” South Korea’s military said it will “deal sternly with any provocation” from the North.

[keith]

Things seem to be escalating rapidly on the Korean penisula. Hopefully everyone takes a deep breath and calms down.

Keith

[UNTflyer]

My brother did two years on the DMZ. He trained new soldiers rotating in and something he always said to them on the first day:

"If North Korea invades with the full might of her standing army, you fellas will be nothing more than a speed bump to them."