S. Korea, U.S. begin drills as N. Korea threatens war
By The Associated Press
This article was published March 11, 2013 at 9:32 a.m.
PHOTO BY AHN YOUNG-JOON / AP
South Korean Army soldiers sit on their K-9 self-propelled artillery vehicle during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, March 11, 2013. South Korea and the U.S. on Monday kicked off an annual military drill amid worries about a possible bloodshed following North Korea’s threat to scrap a decades-old war armistice and launch a nuclear attack on the U.S.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean state media said Monday that Pyongyang had carried through with a threat to cancel the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War, as it and South Korea staged dueling war games amid threatening rhetoric that has risen 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 the United States and recent U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang has piled threat on top of threat, including vows to launch a nuclear strike on the U.S. ]Seoul has responded with tough talk of its own and has placed its troops on high alert.
The North Korean government made no formal announcement Monday on its repeated threats to scrap the armistice, but the country's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had earlier announced it would.
The North followed through on another promise Monday, shutting down a Red Cross hot line that the North and South used for general communication and to discuss aid shipments and separated families' reunions.
The 11-day military drills that started Monday involve 10,000 South Korean and about 3,000 American troops. Those coincide with two months of separate U.S.-South Korean field exercises that began March 1.
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NONSHEEPLE says... March 11, 2013 at 12:14 p.m.
Call that nut jobs hand and get it over with.
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XAV8OR says... March 11, 2013 at 4:50 p.m.
You would think the top man in a country could afford a decent haircut.
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