The university was moved to Guntur for the duration of the war. The war in Burma and the Malay peninsular was anticipated to result in heavy casualties and injured soldiers were to be repatriated to makeshift military hospitals at Andhra University and St Joseph’s Convent in Waltair. Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carrier INS RyujoĬivil Defence Headquarters was established at Hawa Mahal on Beach Road and the Collector led the planning for the town’s war readiness. Censorship, rumours, blackouts, rationing, air raid precautions, military recruitment, gun emplacements, troop movements, and military aircraft became the norm. "For a second in the train there was panic, but a station worker said to calm down, and people did," said the man, whom NHK did not name.The reality of Civil Defence was upon Vizag and people learnt to cope with a different way of life.
On Thursday, a student told Japanese broadcaster NHK that the alert caused momentary alarm at a train station in Hokkaido. Japan's coast guard said a projectile that appeared to be the missile had fallen into the sea east of North Korea. Hamada said he could not confirm whether the missile flew over Japan's exclusive economic zone. He said the ministry was analyzing the launch for more details. air forces conducted drills over the Sea of Japan "as the security environment surrounding Japan is becoming more and more severe," the Japanese defence ministry said.ĭefence Minister Yasukazu Hamada said earlier the missile appeared to have been fired eastward at a high angle and did not fall in Japanese territory. The South Korean military said it was on high alert and co-ordinating closely with its main ally, the United States.įollowing the missile launch, the Japanese and U.S. "We're still analyzing details like the trajectory, altitude and range, with the possibility that it carried a solid-fuel propellant." "So far, we assess that they fired a new type of ballistic missile with an intermediate or intercontinental range," a South Korean official told Reuters under condition of anonymity. North Korea launches ballistic missile into sea amid U.S.-South Korea drills, Seoul and Tokyo say.North Korea claims it tested nuclear-capable underwater drone.The North Korean missile flew about 1,000 kilometres, South Korea's military said, calling it a "grave provocation." The potential for unnecessary panic caused by false alarms was demonstrated in the United States in 2018 when a mistaken ballistic missile attack alert that sounded for more than 30 minutes stoked panic in Hawaii as residents and tourists scrambled for cover. The projectile dropped into the sea long before reaching the archipelago. J-Alert has drawn scrutiny after authorities triggered a warning in November across a swath of central and northern Japan that a North Korean missile was on course to fly over the Japanese islands. Public broadcaster NHK, the coast guard and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) described the cancelled alert as a "correction," a characterization Matsuno disputed. "The projectile disappeared immediately after detection, but the limited information we had indicated it could fall in the vicinity of Hokkaido, and peoples' safety is our top priority," Matsuno said. Japan's coast guard said the missile had landed by 8:19 a.m. after getting updated information about the missile's trajectory, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said at a media briefing. Officials switched the alarm off at 8:16 a.m. on Thursday triggered sirens on Hokkaido and sent automated messages to mobile phones in a system called J-Alert urging the northern island's more than five million residents to seek immediate shelter after Pyongyang fired a new type of ballistic missile. The Japanese government said the emergency evacuation warning it issued and later retracted for millions of residents after a North Korean missile launch on Thursday morning was appropriate and not an error.
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