And from South Korea comes the latest information on the military actions of Pyongyang: "The South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities have detected signs that North Korea has placed medium-range missiles on its eastern coast." And from South Korea comes the latest information on the military actions of Pyongyan.

 It would be a missile capable of reaching its U.S. base in Guam. Among other objectives of North Korean missiles there would be Hawaii and Alaska.

The turn that events have taken on the Korean peninsula have begun to unnerve the global financial markets, which are also accustomed to the bellicose rhetoric of North Korea to the South and the United States. "It is assumed that it is only strong words," said Rob Ryan , strategist at RBS in Singapore. "But we have reached a level of tension that things can not get worse without a real firefight."

 One of the most tense situations at the moment is that of the Kaesong Industrial District, a region of North Korea at the border with the South, where people of the two countries working together: there now for two days Pyongyang denies entry to workers and means of Seoul.

The scope of the report is summarized in the tone used by the media in Seoul, much of wonder and surprise to a scenario repeatedly threatened from the north, but never implemented in the decade of life in which he was able to have a co-operation between the two countries. Not surprisingly, with the surge voltage, the Minister of Defense in Seoul, Kim Kwan-jin, assured the examination of all possible options, including the military in the event of a worst case scenario, if the safety of their workers North Korean enclave is found to be at risk.

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