TOKYO: Dozens of people from a Japanese coastal city took part in the country's first evacuation drill of a missile attack Friday, as regional tensions soar over accelerating North Korean threats.

The exercise in the city of Oga came less than two weeks after three North Korean missiles landed in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) off the northern municipality.

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