NK warns foreigners they should leave SKorea
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April 10, 2013, Wednesday
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North Korea is urging all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of nuclear war.
Analysts see a direct attack on Seoul as extremely unlikely, and there are no overt signs that North Korea's 1.2 million-man army is readying for war, let alone a nuclear one. South Korea's military has reported missile movements on North Korea's east coast but nothing pointed toward South Korea.
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war due to the evermore undisguised hostile actions of the United States and the South Korean puppet warmongers and their moves for a war against" North Korea, said a statement by the North Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.
Last week, North Korea told foreign diplomats it could not guarantee their safety as of today.
Tourists continued to arrive in North Korean capital Pyongyang yesterday despite the war hysteria. Mark Fahey of Sydney said he was not concerned.
"I knew that when I arrived here it would probably be very different to the way it was being reported in the media," he said at Pyongyang airport.
He said his family trusted him to make the right judgment but "my colleagues at work think I am crazy."
Chu Kang Jin, a Pyongyang resident, said everything is calm in the city. "Everyone, including me, is determined to turn out as one to fight for national reunification ... if the enemies spark a war," he said.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has sought to re-engage North Korea with dialogue and aid since taking office in February, yesterday expressed her exasperation with what she called the "endless vicious cycle" of Seoul answering Pyongyang's hostile behavior with compromise, only to get more hostility.
US and South Korean defense officials said they had seen nothing to indicate preparations for major military action.
However, the United States and South Korea have raised their defense postures, and so has Japan, which deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo yesterday as a precaution against possible North Korean ballistic missile tests.
Also yesterday, North Korea confirmed it was suspending work at the Kaesong industrial park, the only remaining product of economic cooperation between the two Koreas that started about a decade ago when relations were much warmer.
Other projects such as reuniting families separated by the Korea war and tours to a North Korean mountain stopped in recent years.
Analysts see a direct attack on Seoul as extremely unlikely, and there are no overt signs that North Korea's 1.2 million-man army is readying for war, let alone a nuclear one. South Korea's military has reported missile movements on North Korea's east coast but nothing pointed toward South Korea.
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to a thermonuclear war due to the evermore undisguised hostile actions of the United States and the South Korean puppet warmongers and their moves for a war against" North Korea, said a statement by the North Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.
Last week, North Korea told foreign diplomats it could not guarantee their safety as of today.
Tourists continued to arrive in North Korean capital Pyongyang yesterday despite the war hysteria. Mark Fahey of Sydney said he was not concerned.
"I knew that when I arrived here it would probably be very different to the way it was being reported in the media," he said at Pyongyang airport.
He said his family trusted him to make the right judgment but "my colleagues at work think I am crazy."
Chu Kang Jin, a Pyongyang resident, said everything is calm in the city. "Everyone, including me, is determined to turn out as one to fight for national reunification ... if the enemies spark a war," he said.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has sought to re-engage North Korea with dialogue and aid since taking office in February, yesterday expressed her exasperation with what she called the "endless vicious cycle" of Seoul answering Pyongyang's hostile behavior with compromise, only to get more hostility.
US and South Korean defense officials said they had seen nothing to indicate preparations for major military action.
However, the United States and South Korea have raised their defense postures, and so has Japan, which deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo yesterday as a precaution against possible North Korean ballistic missile tests.
Also yesterday, North Korea confirmed it was suspending work at the Kaesong industrial park, the only remaining product of economic cooperation between the two Koreas that started about a decade ago when relations were much warmer.
Other projects such as reuniting families separated by the Korea war and tours to a North Korean mountain stopped in recent years.
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