N. Korea to Scrap 1953 Armistice
SEOUL — North Korea has told the U.S.-led United Nations Command that it will announce the scrapping of the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the three-year Korean War, a UNC spokesman said today.
North Korea, which has demanded that the armistice be replaced with a full-scale peace treaty with the United States, barred U.N. monitors last month from entering its territory at Panmunjom, the sole crossing point on the tense inter-Korean border.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said the North’s announcement would be made Sunday, the 45th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
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