Chinese tourism authorities have told travel agencies to call off some visits to North Korea, it has been reported, amid escalating tensions on the peninsula.
But other trips are to go ahead, companies in China have said.
The development came as the South's Yonhap news agency reported the North could launch several missiles without warning and at any time, citing national security officials who said satellite imagery showed more mobile launchers on the country's east coast in addition to the two already thought to have been deployed.
Any launches are expected to be tests, possibly timed to key dates in the North's political calendar – notably the upcoming anniversary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il-sung.
Despite the weeks of threats analysts say there is no sign of mass troop movements near the Korean border and point out that the North has a history of bellicose rhetoric.
"If history is any guide, in a few weeks' time things will calm down … It does not make sense to credulously take their fake belligerence at face value and give them the attention they want now," wrote Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University.
I believe Kim Jong Un wanted to be noticed. He should now put his people into consideration
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