World War 3 preparation? North Korea conducts civilian drills as Trump heads to Asia

has held “mass evacuation” drills to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear conflict with Donald Trump.

According to reports, broadcast on , the rogue state is stepping up its own preparations for .

“Attack response” are rumoured to be part of the simulations held by despot leader Kim Jong-un.

Fox and Friends said: “North Korea are possibly making new preparations for war by simulating attack responses.

“State media in North Korea is reporting that citizens are having rare blackout exercises and mass evacuation drills.”

According to NK News, evacuation drills are “extremely rare” and often unheard of in the rogue state.

A North Korean defector, who once lived in Pyongyang, said he remembers these types of drills taking place “sometimes three times a year”.

NK News claimed “daily air raid drills” were common in 1994 when North Korea and the US were “on the brink of war”.

This comes as experts claim North Korea could be able to strike mainland United States within nine months.

Speaking to Fox News, Gordon Chang, author of ‘Nuclear Showdown’, said progress against Kim Jong-un’s rogue state must be accelerated.

He said: “Take the case of the most difficult of all which is China. China, at the end of September, seems to have ordered its banks to end their relationship with North Korea.

“But we are going to have to see over term whether they actually enforce that continually. Nonetheless, that’s a step forward.

“We have seen a lot of these African countries stop paying money to North Korea and that’s a direct result of American diplomacy.

“There has been progress. Now the question is, we need to have progressed pretty quickly because the North Koreans within about nine months or so will be able to put a nuke on top of a long-range missile and hit the American homeland and, of course, we do not want that capability.

“On the other hand, I think the President actually got the right strategy and is pretty determined to carry it out.”