Chinese living on North Korean border told to prepare for nuclear disaster by state newspaper
Advice issued as tension on the Korean peninsula continues to ratchet up
A state-run newspaper in northeast China published a full-page article advising local residents on how to cope with a nuclear attack – a sign of Beijing’s concern about a possible disaster in the Korean peninsula.
Wednesday’s article in J ilin Daily, published in a province that borders North Korea, ran under the headline “Knowledge about Nuclear Weapons and Protection”, came as sabre rattling continues to escalate following Pyongyang’s repeated nuclear and missile tests – the latest one last week.
Jilin Daily did not mention North Korea in the article, but it said when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, fires, radiation and a blast wave killed more than 70,000 people.
It offered advice on measures it said could help to protect people from radiation, including taking iodine pills.
The page was accompanied by cartoon illustrations asking people to close their windows and doors during an emergency and immediately take a shower and wash out their mouths and ears after being exposed to radiation.