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North Korea said Saturday that inter-Korean relations have entered into a state of war and all cross-border issues will be dealt with in a wartime manner, the latest in a near-daily series of strident threats against the South in recent weeks.
“Situations on the Korean Peninsula, which are neither in peace nor at war, have come to an end,” the North said in a special statement issued by the country’s party, ministries and other institutions, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
At least 10 cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), including those occupying senior positions in the Bihar-Jharkhand-North Chhattisgarh Special Area Committee (SAC), were killed in Chatra district in a gunfight with a breakaway group, Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), which began on Wednesday evening and continued until the early hours of Thursday.
The police have recovered 10 bodies. According to reports, the gunfight began on Wednesday at 4.30 pm, at Lakramanda village. Police officials said it ended when a joint team of the CRPF and district armed police reached the spot at 3.30 am on Thursday.
Three rangers were killed and five others wounded, two seriously, by a bomb explosion in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district early on Thursday, as peace talks began between the Thai government and representatives of separatist groups in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Lt-Gen Udomchai Thammasaroraj, the 4th Army commander, said he believed the attack was intended to disrupt the peace-making process.
North Korea declared today that it is cutting off all inter-Korean military communication lines and suspending the activities of communication liaison offices.
According to Chosun Central News Agency, the North Korean officer who delivered the message by telephone at 11:20AM on Wednesday declared, “In the situation where a war may break out any moment, there is no need to keep the North-South military communication lines that were laid between the militaries of both sides.”
A blitz of attacks across Afghanistan led to the deaths of 52 armed Taliban members in the past day, the Ministry of Interior said Wednesday.
The operations were carried out by Afghanistan’s national police, army, National Directorate of Security and NATO-led coalition forces, the ministry said.