Japan Holds Evacuation Drills After North Korea Missile Tests

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    It’s the Cold War all over again. Better start digging a fallout bunker in the backyard – PB/TK

    Japan Holds Evacuation Drills After North Korea Missile Tests – By Reuters / June 4 2017

    About 100 school children and their parents are holding a clean-up on the field of the local elementary school in this small fishing and farming town, when an alarm warns of an impending missile attack and they run for the school gymnasium.
    The siren “rang all of a sudden while we were picking grass, so that scared me,” said Taison Ito, a 10-year-old fifth grader.
    “It’s something close to our daily lives,” said parent Kanako Ono, adding that news about North Korea and missile tests is always in newspapers and on TV.

    Sunday’s evacuation drill in this town of 3,500 people some 475 miles west of Tokyo involved a simulated North Korean missile attack as more Japanese towns and cities take steps to brace for what they hope will never happen.

    Continue to newsweek.com article: http://www.newsweek.com/japan-north-korea-620423

     

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