He says Pyongyang halted contact between the Red Cross delegations in the truce village,Panmunjom, and the North Korean Navy contacted the South to inform it that all marine communications between the two Korea's are now cut.
VOA: standard.2010.05.26
The U.S. Navy is cut back to the levels before World War I.
Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010, the navy and air force have to cut 5, 000 jobs each, the Army 7, 000 and about 25, 000 civilian staff working at the MoD face redundancy.