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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Paranoid in Pyongyang

Fox News

North Korea says it has the right to attack the U.S. or South Korea without provocation, declaring the armistice ending the Korean War in 1953 "null and void."

In a statement, the military declared it "reserves the right to undertake a pre-emptive action for self-defense against the enemy at a crucial time it deems necessary to defend itself."

The announcement was likely prompted by annual joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, which began on Monday. North Korea called those exercises "an undisguised military threat" and "a war action."

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