North Korea News Updates -- May 28, 2009

South Korean soldiers look out at the North at an observation post on Wednesday. Pyongyang threatened an attack if any of its ships are stopped. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

U.S., South Korea Raise Military Alert On North -- Yahoo News/Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States raised the military alert level for the peninsula on Thursday after the communist North warned the truce ending the Korean War was dead and it was ready to attack.

North Korea ramped up tensions this week with a series of provocations rarely seen since the 1950-53 Korean War, including war threats, missile launches and a nuclear test that puts it closer to having an atomic bomb.

The joint command for the 28,500 U.S. troops that support South Korea's 670,000 soldiers has raised its alert a notch to signify a serious threat from North Korea, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

It is the highest threat level since the North's only other nuclear test in October 2006.

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