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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/world/asia/us-drills-evacuate-civilians.htmlIt has conducted similar evacuation exercises for decades. But with fears rising in the South that the United States might be preparing for military action against the North, the American military issued a rare news release on Monday stressing that the noncombatant evacuation exercise was a routinely scheduled drill.
The drill, known as Courageous Channel, is scheduled from next Monday through Friday and is aimed at preparing American service members and their families to respond to a wide range of crisis management events such as noncombatant evacuation and natural or man-made disasters, the United States military said in a statement.
The South Korean government of President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly warned that it opposes a military solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis because it could quickly escalate into a full-blown war in which Koreans would suffer the most.
United States officials said they were hoping for a diplomatic end to the crisis, but would not rule out military action. And in recent months, as North Korea has accelerated its nuclear and missile programs, President Trump has issued a series of comments that have stoked fears among South Koreans of possible war on the Korean Peninsula. He has threatened to totally destroy or rain down fire and fury on the North, and has also said that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson was wasting his time trying to negotiate with the country.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)or worse missed.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)They actually said East Coast, but I doubt that they mean Nova Scotia
atreides1
(16,075 posts)The North Koreans ability to hit a target, Nova Scotia might be the area that gets nailed!!!
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Ilsa
(61,694 posts)the mainland US, or if they'll be sequestered in Japan to not start a panic.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I guess he thinks this will make him look strong. Bullshit.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)everyone needs to watch Duty to Warn. The Mental Health Professionals were interviewed about trump, and it's not a pretty picture.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)maimed and the long term consequences to humanity.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)what a nuclear war can do????? he is a petulant dangerous child.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)bdamomma
(63,837 posts)get it, I sent the movie to my Senator to watch it, or even if his staffers watch it, crap as long as someone watches it.
marybourg
(12,620 posts)It doesn't include thousands of dependents actually going anywhere.
atreides1
(16,075 posts)This is what we're telling our South Korean allies, to paraphrase a line from the movie Braveheart " "Trump tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're ****ed"!!!
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)This may or may not actually be Kim.....😇