Ban has closely followed the reports of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He urged the parties to refrain from taking any further measures that might increase tensions, said Eri Kaneko, associate spokesperson for the UN chief.
"He also calls the parties to engage in dialogue to reduce tensions and to promote peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," she said.
An Myong Hun, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), will address the press at the UN headquarters Friday afternoon on the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
According to media reports, DPRK leader Kim Jong Un has ordered front-line military units to enter "a wartime state" after an exchange of fire with South Korea. No casualties were reported from the exchange of fire.
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ReplyDeleteNorth and South Korea are to hold top-level talks amid growing tension, the South's presidential office has said.
Senior aides to the two countries' leaders will meet at the Panmunjom truce village on the border at 0900 GMT, the Blue House said.
North Korea had threatened "strong military action" if the South did not stop border loudspeaker broadcasts.
Following an exchange of fire on Thursday, North Korea declared a "semi-state of war", state media reported......BBC
The military chiefs of South Korea and the United States agreed on Saturday to respond to military provocations of North Korea, the South Korean ministry of national defence has said...
ReplyDeleteSouth Korean Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Choi Yoon-hee and his U.S. counterpart Gen. Martin Dempsey agreed in a phone conversation held earlier in the day "to deter North Korea from launching additional threats."
The tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated on August 20 when the North and the South exchanged artillery fire in the western part of the Demilitarized Zone. Seoul claimed that the North had opened fire the first to target the loudspeakers used for anti-Pyongyang propaganda. The North says it never started the latest exchange of fire with the South.
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