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inanna

(3,547 posts) Sun Aug 6, 2017, 07:26 PM Aug 2017

13m ago

So far this year North Korea has carried out 14 missile tests, all of them fired towards the coast of Japan.

Now for the first time in more than 70 years villagers along the North West coast of Japan are now being ordered to take part in air raid drills.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-40829860/japanese-people-practising-nuclear-attack-drills

Video at link.

BBC Correspondent: "Of course, this is all just a drill, but the fact that this is happening...is a sign of the times."