Posted on 09/04/2017 5:06:45 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N.Korea's missile program affects school trips
North Korea's missile launches are affecting Japanese school trips to Guam.
NHK has learned that at least 18 schools in Japan cancelled or postponed their school trips to Guam after North Korea threatened to fire intermediate-range ballistic missiles toward waters off the US Pacific territory.
The schools include 14 senior and 3 junior high schools, and 1 combined junior and senior high school from 11 prefectures.
Some schools conducted surveys of students and their parents on whether they want to go to Guam.
At a school in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, 75 percent of students and parents wanted the school to consider changing a plan for a trip.
The school's deputy head said it was a very difficult decision, but the school decided to give up on the plan for the students' safety and peace of mind.
2 senior high schools in Nagasaki Prefecture have cancelled school tours to South Korea due to increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. They originally planned the tour for this winter.
The city of Okayama, a friendship city with Guam, sent 6 junior high students and 1 staffer to the island in August for a scheduled exchange program. Officials went through with the program after the Japanese Consulate in Guam told them there would be no problem with the event.
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They didn’t want to be there when it tipped over, anyway.
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