Tensions keep on raising on the Korean peninsula with little hope for improvement in the short term.

Soon after joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises began in early March, North Korea followed through with threats to nullify the armistice agreement and cut off the hotline between itself and South Korea.

While this wasn’t the first time that North Korea has declared it was no longer bound by the armistice agreement or cut a military hotline, North Korea’s bombast has hit levels not seen in many years, with threats earlier this month to strike South Korea, the U.S. and Japan