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North Korea reportedly conducting nuclear war safety drills

As tensions between the US and North Korea continue to grow, the regime has been conducting safety measures for its people amid threats of nuclear war. The country has “conducted rare blackout exercises and mass evacuation drills in secondary, tertiary cities and towns last week,” NK News reported. The drills were not conducted in the nation’s capital of Pyongyang. Blackout drills require citizens to minimise lighting to conceal themselves from enemies, particularly enemy aircraft.

Evacuation drills of this nature are “extremely rare,” and often are unheard of in the communist nation that approximately 25 million people call home. “I have never heard of this type of training exercises before in North Korea, but am not surprised,” a retired South Korean army lieutenant general said. “They must realise how serious the situation is.”