How to Prepare for Potential Conflict with North Korea

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While there are things you can do during and after a nuclear attack, we are going to focus on what you need to do ahead of time! Remember, life is not over when Kim Jong-Un says it is. Preppers and survivors will make him eat those words!

Before
Make an emergency supplies kit
Make an emergency family plan
Make a list of concrete shelters near your home
The family plan is a way to collect members of your family from different areas. Under most circumstances involving a nuclear attack, you won’t have time to pick up your kids from school or your grandparents on the other side of town.
So, why suggest making a plan at all? I don’t know, Homeland Security has it on their sheet. Perhaps they expect you to use it in other scenarios.
As for the emergency supplies kit, it should be a bug-out bag you can bring with you in case you need to head to another shelter (which is also why you have the list of multiple places), here’s what it should have in it:
First aid kit, at least two weeks supply of any medicine a family member regularly takes
Paper map (and perhaps brush up on your navigation skills)
Pepper spray, as defense
Iodine pills
Small supply of water, try to make it a week’s worth (FEMA says you need a gallon per person of water per day, likely you won’t be able to carry that much, so you may need a very thorough water filter)
Small supply of food, try to make it a week’s worth
Dust mask per person (N95 preferably)
Change of clothes per person, which should be warmer clothes if you’re in a cold climate
Important documents, in a water-proof container
Here’s a guide for a basic all purpose bug-out-bag which you may also want to consider. You should store the bug-out-bag in the safest place in your home, which is hopefully below ground and surrounded by concrete.
The concrete absorbs radiation, keeping as much from you as possible. If you can stock this shelter beforehand, include everything in the emergency supply kit, along with:
A bin or 5-gallon bucket to contain waste, plastic bags, toilet paper, wood shavings to reduce smell, and sanitary napkins to help keep things clean. Whatever feminine products the ladies in your family use (if you’re not one of them, ask first).
More than two week’s worth of food (that does not need to be cooked), for every person and pet you’ll allow in. Dishes, utensils, and cups to eat with.
More than two week’s worth of water, for every person and pet you’ll allow in.
A battery powered radio and/or a hand-crank radio.
Battery powered light source, or candles and matches. Also, a fire-extinguisher.
Small tool kit, just for turning off utilities.
First aid kit, including iodine pills (They protect only your thyroid, and only from one kind of radiation, but they are better than nothing. Do not take more than one dose, you can technically over-dose on it. More information here.)
Entertainment to keep morale high, like a deck of cards, books, board-games, battery powered electronics, and lots of paper and pencils.
A change of clothes per person. A pillow for each person, and a few blankets.

To learn more, what to do during and after an attack, go to Backdoor Survival to read a really well-thought-out article about the potential disaster and how we can all get through it!

While we do not think the threat is currently real you never know how it may escalate in the future. President Trump is not a man to stand down when it comes to threats and, quite frankly, the leader of North Korea seems to be very unpredictable. We do not know what he will do next. Be prepared!


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