DOOLEY Observed: Propaganda or paranoia? North Korea threatens South Korea again

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Propaganda or paranoia? North Korea threatens South Korea again

On Monday, South Korean and US troops undertook annual military exercises, while North Korea carried out threats to cut off a military hotline and nullify the 1953 Korean War armistice agreement, as tensions on the peninsula remained high.

The South Korean Unification Ministry said that a routine morning call on the hotline failed to go through, indicating that Pyongyang had followed through on its threat to suspend military contact with Seoul.

North Korea also repeated its threat to no longer recognize the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the combat phase of the Korean War. But that may be more of a theatrical move than a harbinger of hostilities, says Bong Young-shik, an analyst at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a think tank in Seoul.

“ They've cut off communication before and it restarted. This doesn't mean that they aren't going to talk to South Korea forever. They cut off the line just to put pressure on the US and South Korea,” says Mr. Bong.