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Embassies face decisions as tensions rise in North Korea

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/world/asia/koreas-tensions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

(CNN) -- Foreign diplomatic missions in North Korea face an ominous decision after Pyongyang said Friday it could not guarantee the safety of embassies and international organizations in the event of armed conflict.

Tensions on the Korean peninsula remain in a heightened state amid new reports that North Korea has prepared missiles for launch, while South Korea has deployed naval destroyers to its coasts.

The British Foreign Office said North Korea told British officials that it would not be able to guarantee the safety of diplomats in the capital if fighting breaks out.

Several diplomatic missions said the North Koreans held a meeting Friday for ambassadors in which they asked whether anyone needed assistance in evacuating their personnel.

"We are consulting international partners about these developments," the British Foreign Office said in a written statement. "No decisions have been taken, and we have no immediate plans to withdraw our embassy."

A spokesman for Sweden's ministry of foreign affairs said the North Koreans "did not urge us or ask us to evacuate," but offered assistance for those who wanted to leave.

The Swedish Embassy in North Korea acts "as the United States' interim protecting power and provides basic consular services to U.S. citizens traveling in North Korea," according to the U.S. State Department.

The Swedish Embassy remains open and operational, the spokesman said.

Russian state media reported a more specific suggestion for its diplomats.

North Korea asked the Russian Embassy to consider a possible evacuation of its staff because of the tensions, Denis Samsonov, spokesman for the embassy, told Russian state media.

France's foreign ministry state it was taking the situation "seriously." It said it had no current plans for evacuations of personnel or French nationals in the country.

The developments come as two medium-range missiles have been loaded onto mobile launchers on the East coast of North Korea, a U.S. official told CNN on Friday. A second U.S. official said intelligence on that is not definitive.

The account followed a report by South Korea's semi-official Yonhap news agency, citing military sources in Seoul, that the two missiles were ready to be launched. Yonhap said the missiles have been hidden in an unidentified facility.

In response, South Korea has sent Aegis destroyers equipped with advanced radar systems to both of its coasts, Yonhap said, citing navy sources.

The United States would "not be surprised" if North Korea launched a missile, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday. "We have seen them launch missiles in the past and the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly condemned them as violations of the North's obligations under numerous Security Council resolutions."

New regional tensions were triggered by North Korean saber rattling, including threats to launch nuclear strikes, and the flexing of military prowess by the United States and South Korea in response.

These followed the imposition of stepped up U.N. sanctions against the North after its latest nuclear test in February.

North Korea has also said it planned to restart "without delay" a reactor at its main nuclear complex that it shut down five years ago as part of a deal with the United States, China and four other nations.

Most observers say the North is still years away from having the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile.

And many analysts say the increasingly belligerent talk is aimed at cementing the domestic authority of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Thursday the situation did "not need to get hotter," reflecting efforts by the Obama administration to ease its rhetoric and cool tensions.

But the latest developments by North Korea, which has accused the United States of pushing the region to the "brink of war," could signal a missile launch soon, officials have said.

The missile components, U.S. and South Korean officials have said, are consistent with those of a Musudan missile, which has a 2,500-mile range, meaning it could threaten South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.

U.S. reducing rhetoric that feeds North Korean rhetoric

It is believed a missile launch would be a "test" launch rather than a targeted strike.

That is because it appears the North Koreans have only moved the components so far. The United States is waiting to see whether North Korea issues a customary notice to its airmen and mariners to stay out of the region.

Communication intercepts in recent days also seem to show that Pyongyang might be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks, another U.S. official said.

Wednesday, the United States announced it was sending ballistic missile defenses to Guam, a Western Pacific territory that is home to U.S. naval and air bases. North Korea has cited those bases when listing possible targets for missile attacks.

North Korea: Our global fear and fascination

Pentagon officials, while decrying North Korean rhetoric, said recent announcements of U.S. military deployments in response to belligerent statements by Pyongyang may have contributed to the escalating tensions.

As the bombast reaches a fever pitch, the United States is refining its message. The Pentagon now says it is working to decrease the temperature as it maintains a frank and vigilant stance toward the threats.

Starting Wednesday, North Korea also barred South Korean workers and managers from entering the Kaesong industrial complex, an economic cooperation zone that sits on the North's side of the border but houses operations of scores of South Korean companies.

It also repeated a threat from the weekend to shut down the complex, where more than 50,000 North Koreans work.


i seriously did not think these people would be that stupid to even think of launching any kind of an attack. offering assistance for foreigners to leave the country, means they are planning something stupid.
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GreGorGy said:
Wow - between when I clicked the link and the page loaded, the cock-up was fixed!
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Yup bwana is a BOSS bro.

marine1 said:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/5/evacuate-embassies-north-korea-asks-russian-diplom/


North Korea has asked Russia and other countries to consider evacuating their embassies because of rising tensions on the Peninsula.
Reuters reported from Moscow that a North Korean Foreign Ministry representative “proposed that the Russian side consider the issue of the evacuation of employees in connection with the increasingly tense situation”, embassy spokesman Denis Samsonov told the agency by phone from Pyongyang.
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He said other foreign embassies in the North Korean capital had received similar requests.
Mr. Samsonov said Russia was examining the request but was not planning an evacuation at this stage, adding that staff at the embassy saw no outward signs of increased tension in the city, Reuters reported.
North Korea has threatened to use nuclear weapons against the United States if provoked, the most aggressive rhetoric in a month-long war of words following UN sanctions against the isolated pariah state and joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.


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N. Korea stands by industrial zone lockdown

Pyongyang refused to lift its block on the Kaesong industrial complex that lies close to its southern border on Saturday. North Korea closed the last remaining border crossing between the two antagonistic countries on Wednesday and has threatened to pull out the 53,000 North Korean workers employed by South Korean companies in the complex. Tensions are reaching boiling point on the Korean peninsula following the North’s declaration of war last week.
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Rt.com
 
Another thread. North Koreans have all the fun :/
 
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AlphaJohn said:
NK reminds me of that kid that kept on poking a dog with a stick.... till the dog bit him.
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Actually i see it as the bully who kept bullying a child until the boy came back and blasted 28 people. NK being the bullied one with all the sanctions. When you put a dog in a corner, it may bite you but you can easily put a bullet in it's head. It will still have a good go at you before it gets killed though.
 
killadoob said:
Actually i see it as the bully who kept bullying a child until the boy came back and blasted 28 people. NK being the bullied one with all the sanctions. When you put a dog in a corner, it may bite you but you can easily put a bullet in it's head. It will still have a good go at you before it gets killed though.
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Why were the North Koreans sanctioned in the first place?
 
Picard said:
Why were the North Koreans sanctioned in the first place?
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Testing nukes. Then they did another nuke test a few weeks ago so the sanctions are even worse now. Sanctions don't work they only make the country become worse.
 
killadoob said:
Testing nukes. Then they did another nuke test a few weeks ago so the sanctions are even worse now. Sanctions don't work they only make the country become worse.
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Would you mind incorporating this quote into your earlier bullying analogy?
 
Picard said:
Would you mind incorporating this quote into your earlier bullying analogy?
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Why? they are being bullied. The US and co can test nuclear weapons if they wanted to so i don't why NK can't do the same. The americans never signed that treaty but countries like iran and NK did, stupid move.

It's silly that some countries are not allowed nuclear arms while others are. Look at qaddafi, got rid of his nuclear stuff and then invaded. granted they did the sign the treaty but sanctioning them is only backing them further and further into a corner. When a dog is backed into a corner you may well find it attacks because it doesn't see any other way. I don't think north korea should have nukes but the sanctions are not helping the situation. Instead of bullying north korea with sanctions like they are doing with iran who don't even have a nuclear bomb, talk it out and try to get a peaceful resolution. Iran is sanctioned as badly as a country that has and is testing nukes.
 
North Korea should not have Nuclear Weapons for the same reason that we do not allow 3 year olds to play with loaded hand guns.
 
North Korea = Drama queens .
The sooner some one bomb's that country in to the stone age the better and safer the rest of the world will be.
 
killadoob said:
Why? they are being bullied. The US and co can test nuclear weapons if they wanted to so i don't why NK can't do the same. The americans never signed that treaty but countries like iran and NK did, stupid move.

It's silly that some countries are not allowed nuclear arms while others are. Look at qaddafi, got rid of his nuclear stuff and then invaded. granted they did the sign the treaty but sanctioning them is only backing them further and further into a corner. When a dog is backed into a corner you may well find it attacks because it doesn't see any other way. I don't think north korea should have nukes but the sanctions are not helping the situation. Instead of bullying north korea with sanctions like they are doing with iran who don't even have a nuclear bomb, talk it out and try to get a peaceful resolution. Iran is sanctioned as badly as a country that has and is testing nukes.
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So should sanctions never be used to put pressure on regimes for doing things that threaten other countries, or for committing crimes against its own citizens?

The sanctions against the Apartheid regime played a big role in ending apartheid.
 
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