‘Take cover’ – but where? Japanese helpless over North Korea threat
TOKYO: Take cover in a sturdy building or get underground.
That's the emergency advice given to the Japanese people in the event of a North Korean missile strike.
But there are two big problems: most Japanese homes are made of wood and lack a basement. In the countryside, there is often no building made of concrete.
And with only a matter of minutes from launch to impact, there's simply no time to take cover.
As North Korea this week fired its second missile over Japan in less than a month and threatened to…