Relatives of US servicemen have rehearsed plans to evacuate South Korea as fears over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program continue to mount.
(DailyMail)- Dependants of military personnel, and American civilians living in the East Asian nation, gathered recently at Yongsan Garrison in the capital Seoul to enact an emergency scenario should the North launch an attack.
The process sees US civilians register at the military base and receive instructions on how to fit an protective devices which guard against the effects of biological attacks for up to 12 hours.
The volunteers were then transported by coach to Pyeongtaek, an hour to the south, where there were two Chinook helicopters waiting to take then to the city of Daegu -where they spent the night in barracks.
In the morning they went by coach to Gimhae Republic of Korea Air Force where they boarded a US military plane to Okinawa in Japan.
If the emergency were real they would then be flown to the US to complete the escape, but after the rehearsal they instead returned to South Korea.
The latest practice evacuation, which is set on the pretense that North Korea had launched a nuclear attack on Seoul, was attended by the Martinez family whose are stationed in the South.