N Korea Broke Off US Liaison Talks

World | March 26, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

North Korea has announced it is breaking off its only regular military contact with the United States in protest at ongoing American military exercises with South Korean forces. North Korea and the US have no diplomatic ties, but military officials have held regular liaison talks at the South Korean border to discuss security issues. A statement by the North Korean army warned that the US military was "pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war" and accused it of violating terms of the 1953 armistice which ended the Korean war.

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