Japanese citizens are preparing for the worst and buying bunkers in preparation for possible North Korean attacks.
Companies like Oribe Seiki Seisakusho, which sells emergency disaster supplies, have seen their sales triple since March, Vice News reported on Wednesday.
The shelters include “a sturdy door that’s bomb resistant,” Nobuko Oribe, director for the company told Vice News. “Even if it’s heated by a fire at 1200 degrees, for three hours, the temperature will only rise a degree inside.”
North Korea has reportedly launched 18 missiles since February.
“It takes time and money to build a shelter. But all we hear these days, in this tense atmosphere, is that they want one now,” Oribe told Reuters in April.
Air filters are also a popular product sold by Oribe’s company. In Japan, evacuation drills have even taken place across the country.
“North Korea says it will complete plan to attack waters near Guam by mid-August then wait for commander in chief’s order,” the Associated Press tweeted Wednesday evening.
President Trumps said on Tuesday the United States will respond to continued North Korean aggression with “fire and fury.” The North Korean military called Trump’s threat a “load of nonsense.”
“My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. “Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!”
