Thursday, October 16, 2008

North Korea Threatens To Cut Ties With South: Report

North Korean soldiers look south through binoculars during a visit by Korean War veterans to the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul and 209 km (130 miles) south of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, September 30, 2008. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak

From Reuters:

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has threatened to end all relations with South Korea, a major supplier of aid and cash, in anger at the hardline policies of its president, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday, quoting North Korean media.

The move comes days after North Korea said it would resume taking apart its nuclear plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium and return to a disarmament-for-aid deal.

"We will have no choice but to make an important resolution including ending all relations with the South (if Lee continues a confrontational policy,)" the North's communist party newspaper said in a commentary, referring to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

Ties between the two states technically still at war turned frosty after Lee took office in February and angered Pyongyang by saying he would cut what had once been a free flow of aid and instead ties Seoul's handouts to progress Pyongyang makes in getting rid of its nuclear arms program.

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My Comment: Dealing with the North Korean Government is a waste of time .... who would know better than the Koreans themselves

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