North Korea has told foreign embassies to consider evacuating their diplomats from the capital, Pyongyang, as tensions are mounting with its southern neighbor, the Russian embassy said.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry official met Russian Ambassador Alexander Timonin today to deliver the message, said Denis Samsonov, a spokesman for the embassy in Pyongyang.
The proposal is now under consideration, Samsonov said by phone, adding that the decision won’t be made today. More than 100 people work in the Russian embassy, he said.
The North Korean initiative was prompted by “the escalating situation” on the Korean peninsula, the diplomat said, adding there were no current tensions in the city.
A crisis is escalating after the communist nation threatened to wage nuclear war on the U.S. and South Korea.
Kim Jong Un’s regime warned this week that “the moment of explosion is approaching soon” and said it’s poised to conduct a “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike.” North Korea also has moved a missile to its eastern coast rocket launch site, possibly for test-firing, according to South Korea’s defense minister.
Russia, which shares a 17-kilometer (11 miles) border with North Korea, agreed last September to write off 90 percent of the Asian nation’s $11 billion debt that dated back to the Soviet period and settle the remaining 10 percent via joint projects in health care, education and energy.
Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited Russia in August 2011 for talks with then President Dmitry Medvedev.

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