TOKYO: Dozens of people from a Japanese coastal city took part in the country’s first evacuation drill of a missile attack Friday, as regional tensions soar over accelerating North Korean threats. A total of 110 residents, including primary school students, participated in the drill, an Oga city official said. But the exercise was held on the premise that a North Korean missile had landed in Japan’s territorial waters, a Cabinet Secretariat official said. The drill was planned last year and was not conducted as a result of the North Korean launches earlier this month, officials said. Under international law, territorial waters extend up to 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) from the coast of a landmass.

Source: Manila Times March 17, 2017 08:03 UTC