NK threatens to nullify nonaggression pacts

North Korea will nullify non-aggression agreements with South Korea, the state-run news agency said Friday.

It also said that it will sever its inter-Korean hotline.

"The DPRK abrogates all agreements on nonaggressions reached between the North and the South," the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement.

"The DPRK (North Korea’s official name) will close the Panmunjeom liaison channel between the north and the south," said the English statement carried by the North's Korean Central News Agency.

The statement came after the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution to punish the communist country for its internationally-condemned underground nuclear test on Feb. 12.