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62804
Wed, 05/27/2009 - 16:46
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N. Korea threatens military response after S. Korea joins PSI
(ATTN: RECASTS lead, UPDATES details)
SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Wednesday it was nullifying the Korean
War armistice and warned of an immediate military strike should South Korea
attempt to interdict any of its ships, blasting Seoul's participation in a
U.S.-led security campaign as a "declaration of war."
The statement, issued by the North's permanent military mission to the joint
security area, also said the country can no longer guarantee the safety of South
Korean and U.S. military ships and private vessels moving along the western sea
border.
"As declared to the world, our revolutionary forces will consider the full
participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative by the Lee Myung-bak group
of traitors as a declaration of war against us," the North Korean military
mission said, referring to the South Korean president, in a statement carried by
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
South Korea joined the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) on Tuesday,
reacting sternly to the North's nuclear test a day earlier. The PSI allows
participating countries to interdict and seize ships and planes suspected of
carrying weapons of mass destruction. Pyongyang views the exercise as a violation
of the Korean War armistice, which bans any attempt of naval blockage in the
region.
The North's military "will be no longer bound to the armistice agreement" that
ended the 1950-53 war, and the peninsula will be returned to the state of war if
the armistice becomes ineffective, the mission said.
With the armistice now ineffective, the North can no more guarantee the safety of
U.S. and South Korean naval vessels and other commercial vessels sailing along
the inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea, the mission said.
"If the armistice agreement is terminated, the Korean Peninsula in terms of law
is bound to return to the state of war and our revolutionary forces will get to
move on to pertinent military actions," the mission said.
"Any trivial attempts, including the act of interdicting and inspecting our
peaceful ships, will be acknowledged as an unacceptable violation of the
sovereignty of our republic, and we will respond with an immediate and strong
military strike," it said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Wednesday it was nullifying the Korean
War armistice and warned of an immediate military strike should South Korea
attempt to interdict any of its ships, blasting Seoul's participation in a
U.S.-led security campaign as a "declaration of war."
The statement, issued by the North's permanent military mission to the joint
security area, also said the country can no longer guarantee the safety of South
Korean and U.S. military ships and private vessels moving along the western sea
border.
"As declared to the world, our revolutionary forces will consider the full
participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative by the Lee Myung-bak group
of traitors as a declaration of war against us," the North Korean military
mission said, referring to the South Korean president, in a statement carried by
Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
South Korea joined the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) on Tuesday,
reacting sternly to the North's nuclear test a day earlier. The PSI allows
participating countries to interdict and seize ships and planes suspected of
carrying weapons of mass destruction. Pyongyang views the exercise as a violation
of the Korean War armistice, which bans any attempt of naval blockage in the
region.
The North's military "will be no longer bound to the armistice agreement" that
ended the 1950-53 war, and the peninsula will be returned to the state of war if
the armistice becomes ineffective, the mission said.
With the armistice now ineffective, the North can no more guarantee the safety of
U.S. and South Korean naval vessels and other commercial vessels sailing along
the inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea, the mission said.
"If the armistice agreement is terminated, the Korean Peninsula in terms of law
is bound to return to the state of war and our revolutionary forces will get to
move on to pertinent military actions," the mission said.
"Any trivial attempts, including the act of interdicting and inspecting our
peaceful ships, will be acknowledged as an unacceptable violation of the
sovereignty of our republic, and we will respond with an immediate and strong
military strike," it said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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