Hong Kong (CNN) -- The North Korean army has declared invalid the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953, the official newspaper of the country's ruling Workers' Party said Monday.
Since last week, North Korea had been threatening to scrap the armistice after the U.N. Security Council passed tougher sanctions against it in response to its February 12 nuclear test.
On Monday, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported that the Supreme Command of North Korea's army had done so.

"The U.S. has reduced the armistice agreement to a dead paper," the newspaper said.
North Korea also cut off direct phone links with South Korea at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The phone line was the emergency link for quick, two-way communication between the two sides.
The armistice agreement, signed in 1953, ended the three-year war between North and South Korea in a truce.

Since the two sides remain technically at war, it remains to be seen whether the invalidation means that either side can resume hostilities.

The Rodong Sinmun reported the Supreme Command saying that it can now make a "strike of justice at any target anytime, not bound to the armistice agreement and achieve the national reunification, the cherished desire of the Korean nation."
However, the North has nullified the agreement on several occasions in the past.
A look back at the history of the armistice.

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It's begun.

One step closer to chaos.

They just need to take a seat. They're embarrassing themselves.

This doesn't mean anything. Relax.

They should know better.
Attacking the US is suicide, even as Chinese lap dogs.

They really want to resume the Korean war?

Okay, good luck with that...

They want to invade South Korea it seems by the article, not the U.S.? It is obvious though that if they do, the U.S. will get involved. Ugh this is a total mess. North Korea is giving me Nazi Germany teas. It is obvious that this country needs to be invaded for the safety of human life in surrounding Asian countries.

I hate it when people belittle North Korea. It just shows their ignorance. Sure they might have not kept their word before but North Korea is a place where we don't know what the hell is going on.

North Korea should stop. It's getting worse everyday.

Somebody throw them a bone so they stop barking.

not them wielding a gun that is made from plumbing pipe

Are they trying to come for South Korea's wig? Samsung and LG will not have that.

Exactly. WTF. No one knows what the hell they got going on, not even the U.S. knows. I dunno why people are being so dismissive. Like I said before, it is giving me Nazi Germany teas. No one knew Germany were re-building an army and producing mass amounts of ammunition and weapons. North Korea could be doing the exact same. People need to just watch instead of pretending they know what's going in that country. No one knows a God damn thing!

Their GDP is $32.7 billion. Google has more cash than that and even Cisco Could you imagine them surviving through a 3 year war with the big guns?