Tensions Flare Over Proposed US-North Korea Peace Bill

South Korean army's multiple launch rocket systems fire rockets during South Korea–U.S. joint military drills at Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, South Korea, on May 25, 2023. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo

Tension is growing over a bill introduced to Congress that would compel the government to unilaterally establish a peace deal with communist North Korea, even as the regime continues to threaten South Korea and the United States with nuclear annihilation.

The Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, introduced by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) in March, would order the federal government to immediately seek to replace the current armistice, in place since 1953, with a formal peace treaty.