Amid escalating tensions between the US and North Korea, Washington is practising evacuating Americans from South Korea, media reports said on Monday.
The evacuation drill is to prepare US “service members and their families respond to a wide range of crisis management events such as noncombatant evacuation and natural or man-made disasters,” the US military said in a statement, adding the exercises were routine and not being held in response to recent events.
The evacuation drill, known as Courageous Channel, is to start from next Monday till Friday, The New York Times reported.
Meanwhile, the European Union imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Monday as part of international efforts to punish the regime for its nuclear weapons programme.
