North Korea ratchets up the hostile rhetoric

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Updated May 28, 2009 19:37:20

North Korea's has made the dramatic declaration that it's no longer bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953. North Korea warns that it will attack any force attempting to halt or inspect its ships, after South Korea joined a US-led program to stop and search vessels suspected of transporting weapons of mass destruction to Pyongyang.

Presenter: Sen Lam
Speaker: John McKay, Korea specialist and founding partner of the research group Analysis International

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