North Korea Scraps Military Deal With South, Upping Tensions
- Agreement was enacted in 2018 to ease military frictions
- Ties worsening after North put first spy satellite into orbit
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North Korea said it is ending an agreement aimed at reducing military tensions with the South, a sign ties are fraying after Pyongyang placed a spy satellite into orbit for the first time.
North Korea vowed that “our army will never be bound” by the 2018 agreement, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday, adding that it “will immediately restore all military measures that have been halted.”