As tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang
has released footage showing its leader Kim Jong-un
supervising a 'drone drill' attack.
The Communist dictator is seen watching a rocket-launched
small aircraft blowing up in the sky after being intercepted by
anti-aircraft missile - yesterday he was seen brandishing a gun
in a video.
The footage broadcast by North Korea's state television comes
amid reports the U.S. has deployed an unmanned spy plane to
Japan for surveillance following reports the rogue state has
moved missile launchers to its east coast.
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The Global Hawk will be stationed at the U.S. airbase in Misawa, northern Japan - it was due to be deployed between June and September, but it has now been bought forward according to the Sankei Shimbun.
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But contingency plans have been drawn up to help Britons escape from the Korean peninsula.
Airborne troops are said to have been put on standby to oversee any evacuation of the region.
Officials have stressed the plans are a ‘precaution’ but said the situation is ‘fast-moving’.
Britain has had an embassy in Pyongyang focusing on nuclear counter-proliferation and human rights for more than a
decade.
The Foreign Office website says the embassy supports ‘small-scale projects aimed at improving the lives of the most
vulnerable’.
There is also a consular section serving the needs of the handful of British citizens working in the Communist
dictatorship.
The US does not have an embassy in Pyongyang. Russia said yesterday that it was considering airlifting its workers out
of the country and had been in discussions with China – North Korea’s closest ally.
Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted Friday during a visit to Uzbekistan as saying that Russia is in touch with China, the
United States, Japan and South Korea - all members of a dormant talks process with North Korea - to try to figure out
the motivation.
'We are very perturbed about the supercharged tensions, which for now are verbal. We want to understand the causes of
this proposal,' Lavrov said, according to the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said the Pyongyang regime had responsibilities to protect embassies under
international conventions and claimed the latest move was 'part of their continuing rhetoric' that the United States poses
a threat.
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Tensions: A Chinese tourists leaps from a speed boat that take them on tours along the North Korean bank of the Yalu River near the town
of Sinuiji. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the country's military to increase artillery production
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Tensions: A Chinese tourists leaps from a speed boat that take them on tours along the North Korean bank of the Yalu River near the town
of Sinuiji. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the country's military to increase artillery production
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North Korean officials check the passports of a group of foreign diplomats and tourists as they board an Air Koryo flight to Beijing at the
airport in Pyongyang. Foreign diplomats appear to be ignoring a warning to get out
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervises 'drone attack' drill
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