The US has had a year-long conversation to sign an armistice agreement with North Korea.

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The armistice agreement, signed six hours earlier, was the designated time when their political masters had decided the slaughter would stop.

BBC: Mission, sort of, accomplished

And if they can come together and work towards, first of all, an armistice agreement between Israel and Lebanon, and an interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, we may have a basis for coming out of this crisis.

NPR: The U.N., the U.S. and the Middle East

The US military said in a statement that the North Korean army had been informed of the exercises, which would be monitored by observers from other nations to ensure they did not break the armistice agreement signed at the end of the Korean War.

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