North Korea announced Thursday that it was ¡°immediately¡± leaving a 2018 inter-Korean agreement that was intended to reduce tensions, state-run media said, after Seoul partially suspended the deal a day earlier in protest of Pyongyang¡¯s launch of a military spy satellite.
¡°We will withdraw the military steps, taken to prevent military tension and conflict in all spheres including ground, sea and air, and deploy more powerful armed forces and new-type military hardware in the region along the Military Demarcation Line,¡± the North¡¯s Defense Ministry said, according to a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Nuclear-armed Pyongyang said it would not be restrained by the agreement any longer, the report said, adding that the country would ¡°immediately restore all military measures that have been halted.¡±
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