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

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This victory forced Mark W. Clark, commander-in-chief of the enemy's Allied Forces, to request the armistice agreement be signed without delay.

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And the North has also threatened to scrap the armistice agreement before this - there are several well documented attempts.

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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.

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And I think these -- this act of aggression, this clear violation of the armistice agreement further sets them back and further isolates them.

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Shortly after the Military Armistice Agreement was signed, President Dwight D.

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It has also threatened a "pre-emptive" nuclear strike against the US in recent days and told the South it has scrapped the Korean War armistice agreement.

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He says China must push the US to withdraw troops from the peninsula and set up a new peace mechanism to replace the armistice agreement with Pyongyang.

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As if the appalling tragedy on an underground train in Daegu were not enough this week, North Korea threatened to terminate the armistice agreement with America that stopped the fighting 50 years ago.

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Aided by South Korean activists, they could begin moving north toward the Yalu River border with China or south to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has divided North from South since the 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement.

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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.

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When North Korea said on March 5 it intended to nullify the armistice agreement that brought conflict in the Korean War to an end in 1953 and threatened to attack Seoul, South Korea's military made a rare and forceful response.

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Today, on the 59th anniversary of the Military Armistice Agreement signed at Panmunjom, we honor all who served in the Korean War, and we pay lasting tribute to the brave men and women who gave their lives for our Nation.

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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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