Advice on how to react to a nuclear attack
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A newspaper in northeastern China’s Jilin City, near the border with North Korea, yesterday published a page of “common sense” advice on how readers can protect themselves from a nuclear weapons attack or explosion.
China has voiced grave concern over North Korea’s nuclear and missiles program, as well as calling on the United States and South Korea to stop provoking Pyongyang.
The full page article in the Jilin Daily explains how nuclear weapons differ from traditional arms and instructs people how to protect themselves in the event of an attack.
Nuclear weapons have five means of causing destruction: light radiation, blast waves, early-stage nuclear radiation, nuclear electro-magnetic pulses and radioactive pollution, the newspaper article explained. The paper said the first four kill instantly.
People who find themselves outside during a nuclear attack should try to lie in a ditch, cover exposed skin in light coloured clothing or dive into a river or lake to try and minimize the possibility of instantaneous death, it said.
Illustrations of ways to dispel radioactive contamination were also provided, such as using water to wash shoes and using cotton buds to clean ears, as well as a picture of a vomiting child to show how medical help can be sought to speed the expulsion of radiation through stomach pumping and induced urination.
The Beijing-based Global Times in a commentary yesterday described the article as a public service announcement due to the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
“If war breaks out, it is not possible to rule out the Korean Peninsula producing nuclear contaminants, and countermeasures must be seriously researched and spoken openly about to let the common folk know. But at the same time, there is absolutely no reason to be alarmed,” the Chinese newspaper said.
US President Donald Trump has warned he would destroy North Korea if it threatened the United States with nuclear weapons.
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