The agreement is likely to be suspended following North Korea launching trash-carrying balloons across the border.
South Korea’s Prime Minster Han Duck-soo, second left, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the government complex in Seoul
South Korea’s Cabinet Council passed a proposal on Tuesday aimed at suspending the 2018 inter-Korean agreement on lowering down frontline military tensions. During the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said the government assessed the 2018 deal has weakened South Korean military readiness at a time when repeated North Korean provocations pose real threats to the South Korean public.
The accord has invited withering conservative criticism in South Korea that mutual reductions of conventional military strength would end up weakening South’s war readiness while North Korea’s nuclear capability remain intact.
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