NORTH Korea has cut off the only regular military contact with the US-led United Nations Command that monitors the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
Accusing the US of trying to attack the communist state, North Korea People's Army said it no longer would send delegates to the meeting at the border village of Panmunjom.
"It is meaningless to sit together with the US forces side to discuss any issue as long as it remains arrogant," the North's official news agency, KCNA, quoted the North Korean message as saying.
The UN Command had no immediate comment.
Tensions have been rising on the Korean Peninsula over the North's suspected nuclear weapons programs.
The UN Command and North Korea have held liaison officers' meetings at Panmunjom almost weekly to discuss implementing the armistice.
Without a peace treaty, the Korean Peninsula is technically still at war.
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Accusing the US of trying to attack the communist state, North Korea People's Army said it no longer would send delegates to the meeting at the border village of Panmunjom.
"It is meaningless to sit together with the US forces side to discuss any issue as long as it remains arrogant," the North's official news agency, KCNA, quoted the North Korean message as saying.
The UN Command had no immediate comment.
Tensions have been rising on the Korean Peninsula over the North's suspected nuclear weapons programs.
The UN Command and North Korea have held liaison officers' meetings at Panmunjom almost weekly to discuss implementing the armistice.
Without a peace treaty, the Korean Peninsula is technically still at war.
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