NKorean threat prompts nuclear evacuation drills in Japan

MOSCOW: Echoing a post-World War II climate of fear that the world was meant to forget, a small Japanese fishing village has reinstituted early-warning evacuation drills, only too aware of how close North Korean ballistic missiles await.

About 500 miles from Pyongyang, residents in the tiny western Japanese village of Abu have, on Tokyo's recommendation, begun holding evacuation drills, training themselves to hunker down at a signal, in the event that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) makes good on its continual threat to fire off nuclear weapons at its numerous enemies, real and imagined.