Hyesan conducts civil defense drills from late February
Civil defense drills were recently carried out in Hyesan, Yanggang Province, Daily NK has learned.
“Hyesan is running air raid drills and evacuation drills as part of a ‘full mobilization training period’ running from Feb. 20 to Mar. 2 that’s supposed to prepare the public for war,” a reporting partner in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Tuesday.
According to the reporting partner, Yanggang Province announced the 10-day training period, which began on Feb. 20, in line with orders received from the central government at the beginning of the month to drill people around the country for the possibility of actual fighting.
The reporting partner said that the central government’s instructions emphasized the following point: “The American imperialists and their puppets in South Korea have been increasingly crossing the line with military exercises that threaten us, so we should prepare thoroughly to be able to respond to those [exercises].” ......
[Source: Daily NK]
