NORTH KOREA SNAPS HOTLINE WITH THE SOUTH
North and South Korea staged duelling war games on March 11, 2013 as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010.
Enraged over the South's joint military drills with united states and the recent UN sanctions, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the US and to scrap the nearly 60 year old armistice that ended the Korean war. Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported the armistice was nullified on March 11, 2013 as Pyongyang had earlier announced. The North followed through on another promise the same day shutting down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions.
Enraged over the South's joint military drills with united states and the recent UN sanctions, North Korea has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the US and to scrap the nearly 60 year old armistice that ended the Korean war. Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert. North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported the armistice was nullified on March 11, 2013 as Pyongyang had earlier announced. The North followed through on another promise the same day shutting down a Red Cross hotline that the North and South used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions.
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