"From now on, our army will never be bound by the September 19 North-South Military Agreement," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted the ministry’s statement. "We will immediately restore all military measures that have been halted according to the north-south military agreement."
"We will withdraw the military steps, taken to prevent military tension and conflict in all spheres including ground, sea and air, and deploy more powerful armed forces and new-type military hardware in the region along the Military Demarcation Line," the ministry stressed.
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North Korea said on Thursday it would deploy stronger armed forces and new weapons on its border with the South, a day after Seoul suspended part of a 2018 military accord between the two Koreas in a protest over Pyongyang's launch of a spy satellite.
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