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S. Korea stages mass evacuation drill amid tension

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

DECEMBER 15, 2010 15:25

SEOUL — South Koreans stopped their cars, donned gas masks and ducked into underground shelters Wednesday in the country's biggest-ever evacuation drill — a government attempt to prepare traditionally indifferent citizens for possible new attacks by North Korea.

Many South Koreans have become used to regular North Korean threats to turn the South into a "sea of fire" and have reacted coolly to civil drills in the past. There has been widespread anger and shock, however, over the North's November 23 artillery bombardment of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island.

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