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Will the armistice agreement between N & S Korea be broken in 2009?
Background: Background: SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) — South Korea formally announced Tuesday that it would join a U.S.-led effort to crack down on trafficking in weapons of mass destruction in response to North Korea’s new test of a nuclear bomb.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s government said it would join the 6-year-old Proliferation Security Initiative because of “the grave threat WMD and missile proliferation is posing to global peace,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young said.
The effort is aimed at interdicting shipments of weapons technology, a rare source of hard currency for North Korea, but Moon said the south would continue to uphold a shipping agreement with the north.
North Korea previously had protested any move by South Korea to join the initiative. There was no immediate response to Tuesday’s declaration, but North Korea’s state-run news agency said in April that any effort to join the initiative would be regarded as “a declaration of war.”
with the new nuclear and missile tests, the pressure is ratcheting up on the peninsula...will either country "declare war" on the other?
i know...technically, they are still at war since there was no peace treaty, but i assume they would still declare war or a re-commencement of hostilities since that is what they say in the report above...
settlement requirements(only 1 must take place): any sustained fighting lasting more than 1 day, a "declaration of war" by either country's president(or other head of state), a "re-commencement of hostilities" as stated by either country or the media, a major news source stating the countries are actively at war, any invasion by one country into the other, any bombing missions by either country where bombs are actually dropped, any naval bombardment....any of these happening will result in a YES settlement, anything else is a NO....hopefully i haven't missed anything
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s government said it would join the 6-year-old Proliferation Security Initiative because of “the grave threat WMD and missile proliferation is posing to global peace,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young said.
The effort is aimed at interdicting shipments of weapons technology, a rare source of hard currency for North Korea, but Moon said the south would continue to uphold a shipping agreement with the north.
North Korea previously had protested any move by South Korea to join the initiative. There was no immediate response to Tuesday’s declaration, but North Korea’s state-run news agency said in April that any effort to join the initiative would be regarded as “a declaration of war.”
with the new nuclear and missile tests, the pressure is ratcheting up on the peninsula...will either country "declare war" on the other?
i know...technically, they are still at war since there was no peace treaty, but i assume they would still declare war or a re-commencement of hostilities since that is what they say in the report above...
settlement requirements(only 1 must take place): any sustained fighting lasting more than 1 day, a "declaration of war" by either country's president(or other head of state), a "re-commencement of hostilities" as stated by either country or the media, a major news source stating the countries are actively at war, any invasion by one country into the other, any bombing missions by either country where bombs are actually dropped, any naval bombardment....any of these happening will result in a YES settlement, anything else is a NO....hopefully i haven't missed anything
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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1) any sustained fighting lasting more than 1 day: NO;
2) a "declaration of war" by either country's president(or other head of state): NO;
3) a "re-commencement of hostilities" as stated by either country or the media: NO;
4) a major news source stating the countries are actively at war: NO;
5) any invasion by one country into the other: NO;
6) any bombing missions by either country where bombs are actually dropped: NO;
7) any naval bombardment: NO.
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