South Korean officials say the North has made preparations and looks ready to make its next provocative move. The mood in Seoul remains calm, however.
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North Korea says it is pulling its workers out of the joint-Korea Kaesong industrial zone amid rising tensions on the peninsula.
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Tensions are high. But South Korea says it does not plan to remove its workers an industrial complex inside the North. Also, while a Russian diplomat says North Korean officials have asked that it consider evacuating staff, no such action is planned at this time.
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The North Korean government officially suspended operations at the Kaesong industrial complex, withdrawing all of its more than 50,000 workers. Many see the complex as the last remaining symbol of North and South Korean unity and fear that tensions may be nearing a dangerous tipping point.
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The factory complex inside North Korea produces products for South Korean companies. It has been a rare example of cooperation. Now, it’s caught in the latest round of escalating tensions on the peninsula.
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When it comes to North Korea’s latest belligerence, U.S. officials can sound more like an exasperated parent responding to a child’s tantrum. That’s just their first warning, though; it’s part of a recently developed counterprovocation plan that’s being put to the test.
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague calls for calm over the North Korean crisis, despite the “paranoid rhetoric” emanating from Pyongyang.
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An anonymous reader writes “The U.S. plans on delaying ‘the test of the Minuteman III intercontinental missile’ that was scheduled for launching next week out of the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The reported reason is to prevent ‘misperception or miscalculation’ by North Korea. North Korea has warned foreign diplomats that ‘they could not guarantee their safety from next Wednesday’ onwards, but the warning has not caused any plans for evacuation of any embassies so far.”
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