North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war

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(Reuters) – North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into “thermonuclear war”.

The North’s latest message belied an atmosphere free of anxiety in the South Korean capital, where the city center was bustling with traffic and offices operated normally.

 North Korea warns foreigners to leave South amid new threats of war

Pyongyang has shown no sign of preparing its 1.2 million-strong army for war, indicating the threat could be aimed partly at bolstering Kim Jong-un, 30, the third in his family to lead the country.

The North, which threatens the United States and its “puppet”, South Korea, on a daily basis, is marking anniversaries this week that could be accompanied by strong statements or military displays.

The warning to foreigners in the South, reported by the KCNA news agency, said once war broke out “it will be an all-out war, a merciless, sacred, retaliatory war to be waged by (North Korea).

“It does not want to see foreigners in South Korea fall victim to the war,” the agency quoted the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee as saying.

“The committee informs all foreign institutions and enterprises and foreigners, including tourists…that they are requested to take measures for shelter and evacuation in advance for their safety.”

None of the embassies in Seoul appeared to have issued any directives to their nationals and airlines reported no changes in their schedules. Schools catering to foreign pupils worked without interruption.

The warning, read out on North Korea’s state television in a bulletin that interrupted normal programming, was the latest threat in weeks of high tension following U.N. sanctions slapped on Pyongyang for its latest nuclear arms test.

It followed the North’s suspension of activity at the Kaesong joint industrial park just inside North Korea, all but closing down the last remnant of cooperation between the neighbors. North Korean workers failed to turn up on Tuesday.

North Korea had said South Korea was trying to turn the Kaesong complex into a “hotbed of war”.

Speculation remained high that the North may launch some provocative action this week – perhaps a missile launch or a nuclear arms test.

In a previous appeal, its authorities urged diplomats in Pyongyang to leave on grounds their safety could not be assured beyond Wednesday. None appeared to have taken any such action.

“VERY DANGEROUS” SITUATION

Also featured in broadcasts were country-wide reports of celebrations marking Saturday’s 20th anniversary of the current leader’s father, Kim Jong-il, taking over North Korea’s leadership and next Monday’s birth date of his grandfather, post-World War Two state founder Kim Il-Sung.

A spokeswoman for South Korea’s presidential Blue House dismissed the warning, saying no one felt under threat.

“We understand that not only South Koreans, but also foreigners residing here remain unfazed as they have great trust and confidence in our military and the Republic of Korea,” Yonhap news agency quoted Kim Haing as saying. She was referring to South Korea by its official name.

A government source in Seoul said a North Korean medium-range missile, reported to have been shunted to the east coast, had been tracked and was believed to be ready for launch.

“Technically, they can launch it as early as tomorrow,” the source said.

But a U.S. embassy official in Seoul said a directive issued last week saying there was no imminent threat to Americans in South Korea remained valid. “Our workers are in all our offices today,” he said. “We have not evacuated anyone.”

Stocks, which had fallen 4 percent over the past four days, edged higher on Tuesday despite the warning. The won currency moved little, dipping slightly after the North Korean statement.

World leaders have expressed alarm at the crisis and the prospect of a conflict involving a country claiming to be developing nuclear weapons.

China, the North’s sole diplomatic and financial ally, issued a new call for calm and restraint, though Beijing’s leaders have shown increasing impatience with Pyongyang.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman, in a statement on the ministry’s website, said Moscow was in solidarity with all G8 industrialized countries “as regards the rejection of Pyongyang’s current provocative and bellicose line of conduct”.

An official from the 27-nation European Union said Pyongyang “looks calm”, but acknowledged there was a “limited risk…of an armed conflict”.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Rome, described the situation as “very dangerous. A small incident caused by miscalculation or misjudgment may create an uncontrollable situation”.

The North is also angry at weeks of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises off the coast of the peninsula, with B-2 stealth bombers dispatched from their U.S. bases.

But the United States announced the postponement last weekend of a long-planned missile launch, a move officials said was aimed at easing tensions on the peninsula. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits Seoul this week.

Employers at the Kaesong complex faced uncertainty as the 53,000-strong North Korean workforce stayed away. A spokesman for textile company Taekwang Industrial and at least two other firms said production had stopped.

South Korean figures said 406 South Koreans remained in Kaesong on Tuesday after 69 left the complex, which generates $2 billion in trade for the impoverished North.

Addressing a cabinet meeting, South Korean President Park Geun-hye described the suspension of Kaesong as “very disappointing” and said investors would now shun the North.

South Korean companies are estimated to have invested around $500 million in the park since 2004.

North Korean workers at the park have appeared increasingly agitated in recent days, refusing to talk to their colleagues.

Many Southerners connected with the park bedded down at budget hotels in a nearby South Korean town in the hope that an order would come from the North to re-open.

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  1. Adam says:

    I am appalled and TRULY frightened for those in South Korea right now. And our US citizens that are still there. I am amazed beyond words at the collective “YAWN” that can be heard coming from the South. I understand that N. Korea is a virtual hot air balloon. And I understand the hesitation to take them seriously. But this is a lethal situation they are finding themselves in.

    I keep hearing “They haven’t made any moves with their military.” Just the other week I read a Reuters or AP story that said that they shouldn’t worry because the Kaesong plant was still up and running and so long as the plant was up and running there was no chance of a war. And then went on to say that the closing of Kaesong would be indicative of a imminent attack. Now we have the closing of Kaesong and there is STILL no response.

    Am I missing something here?

    First the dude cuts hotline. He’s closed the joint factory park. He’s made an open threat. He’s moved launchers into position. He’s raised his military readiness to “1”. A WEEK ago he told embassy personnel to be out of N. Korea by tomorrow. Or today really. Now he’s warning people in S. Korea to think about leaving. The day before he said that the embassy personnel would no longer be guaranteed protection.

    There is a POINT at which one MUST come to the conclusion if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it’s PROBABLY a duck. I mean I know the S. Korean military is very capable of protecting it’s people. But to literally yawn at a time when by all pointers, N. Korea is going to launch an attack on it’s southern counterpart today…or in upcoming days is irresponsible. At best. We should all be praying for the S. Koreans and our servicemen and women who are stationed there. An attack by the north will mean conflagration and Seoul is within 50 miles of the border.

    And as Americans we have a stake in all this. We are bound by treaty to protect the South at all costs. And China is bound by treaty to protect or back the North at all costs. And when the North attacks the South and our B2s fly over and turn Pyongyang into rubble, all of the sudden N. Korea goes from being the aggressor to being attacked, which China must defend. The end scenario is the US vs. China folks. And N. Korea may not be able to hit us with nukes from there, but he could hit our boys and girls stationed at the DMZ with one AND, China CAN hit us over here with a nuke. And of course we will respond with nukes of our own. And then Russia comes to China’s aid.

    Do you see what this is turning into folks? Is our collective houses in order? If it doesn’t happen tomorrow, does that rightly matter? It doesn’t make the situation go away. And this is NOT a spirit of fear talking.

    2 Timothy 1:7
    King James Version (KJV)

    7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

    Proverbs 22:3 says

    The prudent person sees trouble ahead and hides, but the naive continue on and suffer the consequences.

    God bless my friends.

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