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Disaster safety

Follow each link to go to that site. (These were found through the Korean Disaster Prevention Association's disaster safety resources.)National Disaster Safety PortalMinistry of the Interior and Safety — for childrenSafe TV, the national safety broadcast — Ministry of the…

March 2025: IDRN at the North Gyeongsang wildfires

From 25 to 29 March 2025, eleven disaster response workers visited the wildfire sites in Uiseong, Andong and Yeongyang in North Gyeongsang, and carried out relief work.25–26 March, Uiseong CountyOn the first day the team called on an elder —…

Typhoon 14 sweeps through Shanghai

Typhoon 14 swept through Shanghai and lost typhoon status, but the rain clouds carrying its remaining energy are moving east along the tail of the autumn monsoon front lying across the Japanese archipelago.From Friday, starting with Jeju and the south-western…

Floods in Brazil: extreme weather striking worldwide

Video report.

April 2024: another downpour floods the desert city of Dubai

Video report.

January 2024: the Japan earthquake seen from the air

Video report.

Ceasefire, or a ground war?

Video report.

The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye

The earthquake zone in Türkiye and SyriaThe magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck south-eastern Türkiye near the Syrian border at around 04:17 on 6 February 2023 has so far left some 3,500 dead or injured and around 25,500 people affected.With snow…

Disaster response on the ground at the Gangwon and Uljin wildfires

UN sanctions: registration cancelled for eight North Korean vessels

Earlier this month the Union of the Comoros, in the Indian Ocean, cancelled the registration of the vessel Petrel 8, one of the ships the UN Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee had asked member states to bar from their…