Amid international unease over an imminent missile launch from Pyongyang, North Korea warned foreigners in the South to evacuate to avoid military contact yesterday.
“We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea, should there be a war,” stated the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, the North’s state organ that deals with noncommunist countries and inter-Korean affairs, through the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The committee requested all foreigners, including tourists and foreign institutions and enterprises “to take measures for shelter and evacuation in advance for their safety” in a statement yesterday.
The Blue House responded yesterday that such psychological warfare will not shake the foreign community and Koreans in the South.
“North Korea’s psychological warfare using foreigners in Korea will not work here and agitate us at all because Koreans, of course, and foreigners residing in Korea, have great trust and faith in our army and [South Korea],” stated Blue House spokeswoman Kim Haing in response to the North’s statement.
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