朝鮮再次發出戰爭威脅

North Korea has urged foreigners to leave South Korea to avoid a possible military conflict, issuing yet another threat of war on the Korean peninsula.

The North's official news agency issued a statement from the regime's Asia-Pacific Peace Committee Tuesday, urging foreign tourists and enterprises "to take evacuation measures out of Seoul and South Korea for their own safety.''

North Korea issued a similar warning last week to foreign embassies in the capital of Pyongyang.

Meanwhile, North Korean workers failed to show up for work Tuesday at the Kaesong joint industrial zone with South Korea, after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last direct economic link between the two nations.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye says that Pyongyang's decision Monday to withdraw more than 50,000 workers from the facility will hurt the North's credibility in the world as a place to do business.

Tensions on the Korean peninsula have worsened in recent weeks, as North Korea, angered by a new round of international sanctions, has threatened to attack the South, the United States and U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region.朝鮮敦促外國人離開韓國，躲避可能發生的軍事衝突，這是在朝鮮半島發出的又一次戰爭威脅。

朝鮮官方的通訊社星期二發表朝鮮亞太和平委員會的聲明，敦促外國旅遊者和外國企業爲自身安全起見，要採取撤離首爾和韓國其他地區的措施。

朝鮮上星期曾向駐首都平壤的外國使館發出類似的警告。

與此同時，朝鮮員工星期二沒有到朝鮮與韓國共建的開城工業園區上班，此前平壤暫停在園區的運作，而這一園區是雙方之間最後一個直接的經濟往來紐帶。

韓國總統朴槿惠說，平壤星期一決定將5萬多名員工撤出開城工業園區，這將損害朝鮮在世界上的商業信譽。

開城工業園區的韓國公司每年爲朝鮮經濟帶來大約九千萬美元收入。從上星期開始，朝鮮方面拒絕讓韓國人進入開城工業園區。

與此同時，日本開始在東京市區及周邊地區部署彈道導彈攔截系統，以在朝鮮發動導彈襲擊時保護這座城市。

國際社會對朝鮮實行新一輪制裁激怒了平壤，朝鮮半島近幾個星期來緊張局勢升級，平壤威脅要襲擊韓國、美國以及亞太地區的美國盟友。