SEOUL – All nonaggression agreements between North and South Korea are to be scrapped with immediate effect and a military hotline between the two countries is to be cut, North Korea announced this morning.

“Our security situation is currently very dangerous,” Park Geun-hye told reporters in Seoul, promising that her administration would deal “strongly with North Korea’s provocations.”

The North Korean announcement came as Kim Jong Un visited island defense detachments, just hours after the UN Security Council (UNSC) passed new sanctions related to North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

A spokesman from the South Korean defense ministry warned