North Korea announced intentions to enter a “state of war”

Apr 1, 2013 08:02 GMT  ·  By
As North Korea threatens a nuclear war, U.S. jets are deployed to South Korea
   As North Korea threatens a nuclear war, U.S. jets are deployed to South Korea

The Unites States has deployed jets to South Korea, following a statement by North Korean officials in which a “state of war” has been declared.

The U.S. has sent out F-22 stealth fighter jets to its South Korean ally, Global News Desk informs. The jets, also referred to as F-22 Raptors, have been dispatched to Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan.

According to reports from last month, the two countries put together the Key Resolve operation, in which troops rallied for training exercises.

Within the first weeks of March, 13,000 U.S.-South Korea troops started training after war talks intensified. Said talks ended in a statement by the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) mentioning a “nuclear war.”

“From this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the state of war and all issues raised between the North and the South will be handled accordingly,” they announced on Saturday.

“The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over,” the statement reads.

“Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war,” the post further adds, according to a report by The Independent.

The communist country is threatening that, if military operations start off, there will be global implications and the conflict “will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war,” the statement said.

North and South Korea last reached an armistice that put a temporary stop to war efforts after the 1950-1953 Korean War.

In February, North Korea disregarded UN sanctions on nuclear activity by performing a missile test, after carrying on another missile launch in December.