Yahoo! News - N. Korea Threatens to Abandon Armistice


What is troublesome is that, if you're North Korea, it may get to the point that their huge army becomes a "use it or lose it" deal.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) threatened Tuesday to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, accusing the United States of plotting an attack on the communist state.


A spokesman of the North's Korean people's Army said that the United States was building up reinforcements around the Korean Peninsula in preparations to attack the North, said the North's official news agency KCNA.


"The situation is, therefore, getting more serious as the days go by as it is putting its plan for pre-emptive attacks on the (North) into practice with increased zeal," KCNA quoted the unidentified spokesman as saying.


The spokesman said the "grave situation created by the undisguised war acts committed by the U.S. in breach of the armistice agreement compels the Korean People's Army side, its warring party, to immediately take all steps to cope with it."


"If the U.S. side continues violating and misusing the armistice agreement as it pleases, there will be no need for the (North) to remain bound to the armistice agreement uncomfortably," the spokesman said.[...]

Now, no one wants North Korea to be uncomfortable!


Of course, if you read this news item from the official North Korean news site, you may wonder how an army could invade the south without falling all over the nuclear weapons which smother the landscape:

As recorded in the minutes 111 of the 125th South Korean National Assembly held in 1985, 1,720 U.S. nuclear weapons were deployed in South Korea. They include nuclear bombs and shells, missile nuclear warheads, neutron bombs and shells, nuclear mines and backpack nukes.


South Korea has turned into the world's biggest nuclear base as more than one nuke has been deployed in every 100 square km of its territory.


The U.S. basic strategy aimed to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK so called a nuclear umbrella strategy remains unchanged even in the post cold war period.


This land covering more than 100,000 square km has been converted into the biggest nuclear arsenal in the Far East as it is covered with a huge number of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, ground and air nuclear weapons, nuclear warheads and means of nuclear delivery.


Referring to the U.S. moves to convert the areas around South Korea into its nuclear base, the press release pointed out:


The U.S. has deployed nearly half of its nuclear weapons totalling over 20,000 and the majority of its strategic forces in the Asia-Pacific region around the Korean Peninsula.


It has in the region 560 military bases and facilities, at least 1,000 aircraft including strategic bombers and over 200 warships including 6 aircraft carriers and 34 nuclear submarines and over 6,500 nuclear weapons.