N Korea scraps all accords with S Korea

SEOUL: North Korea announced Friday it is scrapping all political and military agreements with South Korea, accusing Seoul of pushing relations to the brink of war. The communist state said all agreements on ending confrontation would be nullified, including one covering their Yellow Sea border -- the scene of bloody naval clashes in 1999 and 2002. The statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea further raised tensions after months of frosty relations. "The confrontation between the north and the south in the political and military fields has been put to such extremes that inter-Korean relations have reached the brink of a war," Friday's statement said. "Under such situation it is self-evident that there is no need for the DPRK (North Korea) to remain bound to those north-south agreements."