South Korea's Foreign Ministry issued advisories on Thursday about possible acts of terror by the North.
The South Korean government raised the terror alert levels at five overseas missions on Thursday, citing the possibility of attacks by the North.The Foreign Ministry in Seoul ordered elevated threat monitoring at its embassies in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh; Laos' capital, Vientiane; and Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. Warnings were also sent to its consulates in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East and in Shenyang in northeastern China.
South Korea is a major weapons developer, with global contracts for advanced fighter aircraft, warships and heavy artillery.The United States, which is treaty-bound to defend South Korea, redesignated the North a state sponsor of terrorism in 2017, having previously taken the regime off the blacklist to ease nuclear nonproliferation talks.
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