SEOUL, November 23. /TASS/. North Korea will not observe the September 19, 2018 military agreement with South Korea and will resume military activities suspended under the agreement, the North Korean defense ministry said.

"From now on, our army will never be bound by the September 19 North-South Military Agreement," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted the ministry’s statement. "We will immediately restore all military measures that have been halted according to the north-south military agreement."

"We will withdraw the military steps, taken to prevent military tension and conflict in all spheres including ground, sea and air, and deploy more powerful armed forces and new-type military hardware in the region along the Military Demarcation Line," the ministry stressed.

Following North Korea’s launch of a reconnaissance satellite, South Korea said on November 22 that it partially suspends the agreement with North Korea in what concerns the prociion of no-flight zones.

North Korea’s defense ministry stressed that the satellite launch is "a step pertaining to the right to self-defense and the legitimate and just exercise of sovereignty" amid " the enemies' various military moves around the Korean peninsula."

According to Pyongyang, the South Korean side has "gone extremely hysterical with confrontation, labeling the legal right of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a violation of UN "resolutions" and "illegal action."

"The South Korean side "didn't hesitate to announce the nullification of some articles of the agreement as if they have earnestly waited for that moment," it stressed. "The September 19 North-South Military Agreement has long been reduced to a mere scrap of paper owing to the intentional and provocative moves of those of the "ROK."

The North Korean defense ministry noted that the Korean Peninsula is seeing "the most dangerous situation," which is fraught with "the world's most acute military confrontation" and "any slight accidental factor may aggravate an armed conflict to an all-out war." The current dangerous situation in the military demarcation line zone "has become irreversibly uncontrollable, due to the serious mistake made by the political and military gangsters of the "ROK.".