Korean Barbecue, Part 2

And North Korea has just announced this morning that it is cutting all ties with South Korea, according to Reuters and China's Xinuha News Agency.

"The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea .... formally declares that from now on it will put into force the resolute measures to totally freeze the inter-Korean relations, totally abrogate the agreement on non-aggression between the north and the south and completely halt the inter-Korean cooperation," the North's KCNA news agency reported.

It said all relations with the South Korean government would be severed and communications between the two states would be cut.

It will also expel personnel from the Kaesong industrial park, a joint North-South venture just inside its border. But it was not immediately clear what impact that would have on factories operating there.

The industrial estate, in which South Korean firms employ cheap North Korean labor has long been an important source of revenue for the Pyongyang leadership.

Things are getting interesting.  Tom Clancy novel interesting.  More on this later.