N. Korea cuts military hotline with South

North Korea has issued fresh threats to attack the US mainland, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea. Source: AAP

NORTH Korea says it is cutting a military hotline with South Korea, meaning that all direct inter-government and military contact has been suspended after it previously cut a Red Cross link.

"From now, the North-South military communications will be cut off," the North's official Korean Central News Agency quoted a military official as saying.

"Under the situation where a war may break out any moment, there is no need to keep up North-South military communications," the official told a South Korean counterpart before the hotline was disconnected.

He said the link would remain severed as long as the South's "anachronistic hostile acts continue".

Several weeks ago North Korea severed the Red Cross hotline used by the two governments to communicate in the absence of diplomatic relations.

The hotline mentioned on Wednesday is important because the Koreas use it to communicate as hundreds of workers travel back and forth to the Kaesong industrial complex. Officials say more than 900 South Korean workers were in Kaesong on Wednesday.

It also comes a day after North Korea's military put its "strategic" rocket units on a war footing, with a fresh threat to strike targets on the US mainland, Hawaii and Guam, as well as South Korea.

North Korea is angry over routine US-South Korean drills and recent UN sanctions punishing it for its February 12 nuclear test.

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

N. Korea cuts military hotline with South

Dengan url

http://flasdiskvirus.blogspot.com/2013/03/n-korea-cuts-military-hotline-with-south.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

N. Korea cuts military hotline with South

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

N. Korea cuts military hotline with South

sebagai sumbernya