BRITAIN is urging calm over the spiralling nuclear tensions with North Korea, saying Pyongyang had shown no signs of repositioning its armed forces despite its "paranoid rhetoric".
Foreign Secretary William Hague added there was no immediate need to withdraw British diplomats despite Pyongyang warning that it could not guarantee their safety if conflict broke out.
"It is important to stress that we haven't seen in recent days, in recent weeks a change in what is happening in North Korean society. We've not been able to observe that," Hague told BBC television.
"We haven't seen the repositioning of forces or the redeployment of ground forces that one might see in a period prior to a military assault or to an all-out conflict.
"That's why I say it's important to keep calm as well as to be firm and united about this."
The heads of EU missions in Pyongyang met on Saturday after North Korea warned they should consider evacuating as it could not guarantee their safety after April 10 in the event of conflict breaking out.
"I haven't seen any immediate need to respond to that by moving our diplomats out of there," Hague said.
However, he added Britain, a nuclear-armed member of NATO and the UN Security Council, would "keep this under close review with our allies and international partners".
A further meeting of EU ambassadors is due to take place on Monday in Brussels.
Hague said while there was always a "danger" from a nuclear-armed North Korea, the real risk was letting the war of words turn into a real conflict.
He said there was a "danger of miscalculation by the North Korean regime which has worked itself up into this frenetic state of rhetoric in recent weeks and the danger that they would believe their own paranoid rhetoric."
The British foreign minister would not however be drawn when asked if he thought North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was "nuts".
"I don't know the man myself," Hague said.
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