Updated: 03/08/2013 08:27 | By Agence France-Presse

N. Korea voids non-aggression pacts with South

North Korea announced Friday it was voiding non-aggression pacts with South Korea and severing a hotline with Seoul, hours after the UN Security Council adopted tough new sanctions on Pyongyang.

N. Korea voids non-aggression pacts with South

N. Korea voids non-aggression pacts with South

North Korea "abrogates all agreements on non-aggression reached between the North and the South," the state-run Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement.

"It notifies the South side that it will immediately cut off the North-South hotline," said the statement, which was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

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