South Korean government agrees to suspend military agreement with North Korea

By Alimat Aliyeva

The South Korean government has passed a decree suspending the military agreement between North and South Korea.
Azernews reports.

The complete lifting of the pact will allow South Korea to resume its military exercises near the North Korean border.
On the eve of the proposal to suspend the agreement on September 19, 2018, the National Security Council (NSC) under the president made a proposal. Now, the proposal still needs to be signed by President Yoon Seok-yeol. The reason for the decision was the recent launch of 3,500 balloons carrying 15 tons of garbage by North Korea into South Korea’s border areas. North Korean authorities said this was in response to South Korean activists sending anti-Pyongyang materials to the North.

In November 2023, in response to the launch of the DPRK’s first military reconnaissance satellite, South Korea suspended several points under the inter-Korean military agreement – in particular, intelligence activities in the area of ​​the military demarcation line were resumed. In response, the DPRK resumed all measures suspended under the 2018 military agreement with South Korea: it began stationing military personnel and weapons in the area of ​​the military demarcation line.

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