North Korea leader Kim Jong Un hails accord with South as landmark

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called this week's accord between the rival Koreas "a landmark occasion" paving the way for defused military tension and improved ties, but said it was the strength of its armed forces that made the deal possible.

North and South Korea agreed early on Tuesday to end a military standoff that sparked an exchange of artillery fire and had ratcheted up tension on one of the world's most heavily-fortified borders.

The two sides also agreed to open a new channel of dialogue to discuss a range of issues with the aim of improving ties, raising hopes for a fresh push to restore talks and exchanges that had been cut off since 2010.

"The joint press release published at the contact provided a crucial landmark occasion of defusing the acute military tension and putting the catastrophic inter-Korean relations on the track of reconciliation and trust," the North's KCNA news agency on Friday quoted Kim as saying in a meeting with military aides.

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[elleng]

1. What's up, has he taken a sanity pill???

Whoever expects to hear good news from North Korea???

[Renew Deal]

3. No, he acts like a maniac, blames SC

And then takes credit when things settle down for the problems he started.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. No, just a very clever ruse.

[rocktivity]

2. Wow! But do the South Koreans know about this?

rocktivity

[KinMd]

4. Pressure from China?, they have their own problems, they don't need lil Kim starting a war

[cstanleytech]

8. Doubt it, if China had that much influence with them then N. Korea would not have nukes atm.

No, what I suspect is he is afraid of a coup by the people of north korea and so hes using this to try and fool them into thinking he and his military commanders are powerful when the truth is they are weak and the only reason he hasnt been removed by south korea and the western world is he and his country are not even in the top 100 of the worlds problems.

[davidpdx]

5. The calm will be short lived

The Norks will be back to harassing us in a month or two.

[Turbineguy]

6. Create crisis.

negotiate peace plan.

award self medal.