what's left  Armistice Agreement Withdrawal: North
Korean Belligerence?  Posted in north Korea by what's left on
March 16, 2013  By Stephen Gowans  Why has North Korea withdrawn
from an armistice agreement that has kept overt hostilities on
the Korean peninsula at bay since 1953? Does the withdrawal
portend an imminent North Korean aggression? Hardly. North Korea
is in no position to launch an attack on its Korean neighbour,
or on the United States, at least not one that it would survive.
North Korean forces are dwarfed by the US and South Korean
militaries in size, sophistication and fire-power. The
withdrawal serves, instead, as a signal of North Korean resolve
to defend itself against growing US and South Korean harassment,
both military and economic.  US provocations  For decades, North
Korea has been subjected to the modern form of the siege. “The
aim of the siege is to reduce the enemy to such a state of
starvation and deprivation that they open the gate, perhaps
killing their leaders in the process and