North Korea Prepares City Evacuations, Blackout Drills as US Threat Increases
2017-10-31 08:41:03 source：Sputniknews
October 30, 2017
Multiple sources have told NK News that North Korea has been conducting unprecedented mass evacuation and blackout drills in cities and towns along the east coast of the country as tensions between North Korea and the US continue to rise.
North Korean citizens reportedly practiced leaving their homes and blacking out their lights in case of a bombing campaign, the Telegraph reported.
On Saturday, during his visit with South Korea's Defense Minister Song Young-moo in Seoul, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "North Korea has accelerated the threat that it poses to its neighbors and the world through its illegal and unnecessary missile and weapons programs," and that US and South Korean military and diplomatic cooperation has taken on "a new urgency," USA Today reported.
Mattis also warned that the US does "not accept a nuclear North Korea" and that "any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response, effective and overwhelming."
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