The Doctrine of Nullification moves from Demint to Pyongyang
Something I find interesting about this…
North Korea declared the 1953 Korean War armistice nullified on Monday, following through on a longstanding threat that it renewed last week amid rising tensions with South Korea.
No, I imagine it is a whole lot of attention grabbing on the North Korean government’s part, and the usual “Crisis to stir up support amongst the Populace” antics of the totalitarian regime –Â and there isn’t much more to do than a lot of eye rolling, but this brings to mind some existential and definitional questions right about here, with the United Nations and International response…
The United Nations has come out clearly stating that North Korea does not have the power to nullify the agreement, and thus the treaty holds. Â It’s right there in the 1953 Treaty.
Question from the peanut gallery… don’t you nullify by simply… violating the agreement? Â Again, this doesn’t move into the field of policy — maybe we should just see to it to the end and proceed as though in the end, the Armistice exists… but it is an odd semantic issue.