SOUTH KOREANS ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORST AS THEY BORDER THE COMMUNIST KIM N KOREA - UNLIKE THE STORM THAT NATURE BRINGS THIS ONE IS MAN MADE AS A GIFT FROM THE KIM - AS TALKS OF WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR ESCALATE FROM THE RED NATION TONGUE

South Koreans are buying more ready to eat meals and the government plans to expand nation-wide civil defence drills planned for this month as rhetoric between North Korea and the United States ramps up tension.
Long used to living within the range of North Korea's artillery, people in the South have generally ignored its aggressiveness and series of nuclear and long-range missile tests.
But this week, as Pyongyang exchanged increasingly angry words with the United States, there are worries of a clash erupting along the heavily militarised frontier which divides the two Koreas.

Combat Ration Inc, which makes 2 billion won ($1.75 million) of annual revenue selling ready to eat meals, said sales had surged as much as 50 percent in the past week compared to the average.

"Since 2006, when North Korea first conducted its nuclear test, there wasn't this much response as people became immune to frequent missile launches and nuclear tests," said Yoon Hee Yeul, the chief executive of Combat Ration, based in the south-eastern city of Daegu.
"I feel it's different this time," said Yoon, who's been in the business since 2004.

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