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North Korea Far Outscores South Korea on Civil Defense Prep

<> on January 6, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea confirmed it has conducted a hydrogen bomb test after South Korea’s Metrological Administration detected an ‘artificial earthquake’ near Punggye-ri, North Korea’s main nuclear testing site on January 6, 2015.
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Posted: August 31st, 2017

Political and military leaders on all sides have assured the public that they are prepared for a potential war with North Korea, but how prepared is the public?

For decades, the likelihood of war seemed remote, but that was before North Korea developed nuclear weapons, and power in Pyongyang and Washington shifted to relative rookies at the art of international diplomacy, both of whom have issued provocative statements and threats against each other in recent weeks.

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