{"id":19310,"date":"2013-03-07T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2013-03-07T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:46:25","slug":"north-korea-rhetorically-re-starts-the-not-officially-ended-korean-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/north-korea-rhetorically-re-starts-the-not-officially-ended-korean-war\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea rhetorically re-starts the not-officially-ended Korean War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that North Korea wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/world\/2013-03\/07\/c_132216387.htm\" target=\"_blank\">scrap the armistice<\/a> that brought the Korean War to a halt in 1953:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has vowed to nullify an armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War from March 11, and warned of more and stronger countermeasures if the United States and South Korea continued joint military drills.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, made by DPRK&#8217;s top Army Supreme Command on a rare appearance on the state TV, came when the UN Security Council is ironing out penalties against Pyongyang over its third nuclear test on Feb. 12. Diplomats said that a Council resolution condemning the test and toughening sanctions on DPRK will be put to a vote as early as this week.<\/p>\n<p>March 11 marks the start of the annual joint South Korea-U.S. military exercises, which will involve 10,000 South Korean and 3,500 U.S. troops. The drill, dubbed Key Resolve, was denounced by DPRK&#8217;s official KCNA news agency as a prelude to an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the DPRK&#8217;s latest move aims to defy the possible new UN sanctions and seeks to replace the armistice agreement with a peace treaty that guarantees Pyongyang&#8217;s security, as requested by DPRK at the six-party talks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that North Korea wants to scrap the armistice that brought the Korean War to a halt in 1953: The Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has vowed to nullify an armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War from March 11, and warned of more and stronger countermeasures if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,13],"tags":[432,279,281,691],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-usa","tag-diplomacy","tag-korea","tag-koreanwar","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-51s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19312,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}