With no armistice in effect, such an act would have been permissible under international law.
The two countries never signed a peace treaty after an armistice ended their 1950-53 conflict.
His parents received written notice of his death on the day the armistice was declared.
Pyongyang said recently it would scrap the Korean war armistice and end non-aggression pacts with Seoul.
It says it has scrapped the Korean War armistice and ended non-aggression pacts with Seoul.
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South and North Korea agree on need to end the current armistice and establish permanent peace.
In 1940, Marshal Philippe Petain announced that France had asked for armistice terms from Germany.
The silence was observed at Armistice Day services across the country at 1100 GMT.
The US has had a year-long conversation to sign an armistice agreement with North Korea.
" He referred to Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines as "illegitimate.
If Israel would just contract into the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, everything would be wonderful.
As Tamir sees it, the demarcation of the 1949 armistice lines is crucial for advancing peace.
He was unable to explain the legal basis for Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines.
The North has spent the last six decades denouncing the armistice, promising war, and provoking its opponents.
They did not require Israel to end the construction of Jewish communities outside the 1949 armistice lines.
He has abrogated the 1953 armistice on various occasions, most recently on May 27 of last year.
Twitter users are planning to take part in an Armistice Day service on the social networking site.
His purported crime was purchasing wood products from an Israeli community located beyond the 1949 armistice lines.
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By shrinking into the 1949 armistice lines, Israel would be unable to defend itself against foreign invasion.
It has been intermittently threatening to tear up the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953.
Redeployment of Israeli military forces to limited areas of operations and security zones abutting the 1949 armistice lines.
At heart, however, the DMZ remains a place of limbo, frozen in time by the armistice of 1953.
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a treaty.
Even then it took a nuclear threat from incoming President, Dwight Eisenhower, in 1953 to achieve an armistice.
North Korea's main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, reported that the armistice was nullified Monday as Pyongyang had earlier announced.
It was the first time that Syrians caught up in clashes were allowed to cross the armistice line.
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The North has also threatened to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting of the Korean War.
He recommended that Israel end all Jewish construction outside the 1949 armistice lines, and stop fighting Palestinian terrorists.
American troops have remained on the Korean peninsula since the armistice in 1953.
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