N. Korea threatens military response after S. Korea joins PSI

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Wednesday that it will no longer be
bound to the Korean War armistice and will militarily respond to any foreign
attempt to inspect its ships, denouncing South Korea's participation in a
U.S.-led security campaign as a "declaration of war."
"As declared to the world, our revolutionary forces will consider the full
participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) by the Lee Myung-bak
group of traitors as a declaration of war against us," the North's permanent
military mission to the joint security area said.
It said the North Korean military "will be no longer bound to the armistice
agreement" that ended the 1950-53 war, and the peninsula will soon be "returned
to the state of war" as long as the armistice remains ineffective, the mission
said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
South Korea announced its full membership in the PSI on Tuesday, reacting sternly
to the North's nuclear test a day earlier.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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