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| Lee: N. Korea breached U.N. Charter, inter-Korean armistice | |
| 2010-05-22 | |
| SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Friday ordered "resolute and systematic" countermeasures against North Korea, saying its torpedo attack on a South Korean warship in March violates the U.N. Charter and the 1953 armistice agreement that effectively ended the Korean War. Presiding over an emergency meeting of his National Security Council (NSC), Lee also called for a prudent approach toward what he said is a serious and grave issue. It was a "surprise military attack from North Korea (that came) while South Korean people were resting late at night," Lee said, according to spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye. "It constitutes a violation of the U.N. Charter, the armistice agreement, and the South-North Basic Agreement." The 1991 Basic Agreement obliges the two sides not to invade each other and to work together towards reconciliation.
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