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Regime says visitors might get hurt if war starts, while workers boycott joint factories and missile test talk heightens.


Justin McCurry in Seoul
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 April 2013 08.05 BST


As the world waits to see if North Korea launches a ballistic missile, the regime has attempted to raise tensions further, warning foreigners living in South Korea to make evacuation plans because the peninsula is on the brink of war.

"We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war," the official KCNA news agency quoted an official from a North Korean organisation calling itself Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee as saying.

The KCNA report did not offer details and there are reportedly no signs of a military buildup near the border dividing the Korean peninsula, located less than 40 miles from the South Korean capital, Seoul.

Analysts noted that Pyongyang had issued similar threats in the past, adding that this latest warning is designed to elicit aid and political concessions from Seoul and Washington.

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The prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said his government would take "every possible measure to protect the lives and safety of the Japanese people".

The closure of Kaesong, the last symbol of rapprochement between the two Koreas, marks a serious deterioration in cross-border ties. The move is also a sign of how far the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, may be prepared to go to foment crisis on the peninsula, given that a prolonged closure would deprive his regime of an important source of hard currency.

South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye, described the suspension as "very disappointing" and said investors would now shun the North.

"Investment is all about being able to anticipate results and trust and when you have the North breaking international regulations and promises like this and suspending Kaesong while the world is watching, no country in the world will invest in the North," Park told a cabinet meeting.

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Pyongyang's methods have been highly consistent since the early 1960s. "Its strategy has been to lash out at its enemies when it perceives them to be weak or distracted, up the ante in the face of international condemnation (while blaming external scapegoats) and then negotiate for concessions in return for an illusory promise of peace."

-Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University


from Is North Korea's threat more than posturing this time? by Peter Beaumont; for more, here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/07/north-korea-posturing-predictable

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sija lang gid hang tambok sang nort kor haw, hang ijahang mga songdalo poros pajatot.

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diri sa China kay everyone is warned not to eat chicken and duck or any poultry products... gira sa korea but health issues diri. asa naman ta ani

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