Korean war News

Just five days after proposed high level talks with South Korea were abandoned after North Korea alleged that South Korea had insulted it North Korea has today, proposed new high level talks with the United States.

North Korea announced it is restarting operations at its nuclear facilities including the currently mothballed reactor at Yongbyon nuclear facility. But, behind the latest sabre-rattling there are changes at the very top of Pyongyang's political elite.

Less than 24 hours after the United States despatched two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers from their base in Missouri to fly dummy bombing runs over South Korea, North Korea has again ratcheted up the rhetoric in the Korean peninsula.

South Korea's Defense Ministry has warned North Korea that if it launches a nuclear attack against it it "the Kim Jong Un regime will vanish from the earth by the will of humanity."

Hours after North Korea has declared the 60-year-long standing ceasefire with its southern neighbor to be null-and-void China has called for calm saying all sides should continue talks in order to avoid "further escalation" and possible war.

Friday Kim Jong-Un threatens to scrap all peace pacts with South Korea after the United Nations imposed tough new sanctions on the country. In a fast paced week North Korea has threatened a preemptive strike against the US and appears ripe for war.

As the United Nations meets to consider further sanctions against North Korea, Pyongyang has once again upped the ante, this time threatening the United States with a 'pre-emptive' nuclear attack.

Sixty years after an armistice agreement saw to a cessation of hostilities that formally ended the Korean war, North Korea is threatening to scrap it, indicating the possibility of war with its southern neighbor.

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