North Korea has announced that it has entered a "state of war" with the South. It comes amid increasing threats issued by Pyongyang against the United States and South Korea following tough international sanctions.
"As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol," the North's official KCNA news agency said in a statement released on Saturday.
"The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over," KCNA added. It attributed the statement to all government bodies and institutions.
The neighbors have technically been at war since 1953, when the Korean War concluded with a ceasefire rather than the formal signing of a peace treaty.
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