SEOUL / TOKYO (Reuters) – South Korea crouched down when Typhoon Haishen advanced north along the country’s east coast on Monday, a day after the strong typhoon hit the islands of southern Japan, where four other people are missing after a landslide.
The storm, with sustained winds of up to 70 miles (112 km) consistent with the hour, temporarily cut forces more than 75,000 families and displaced another 3,100 people in South Korea after touching land at the southeastern tip of the peninsula, according to the Ministry of Security.
At least two other people have died, two more are missing and five others have been injured, basically in flood-affected southern areas, the ministry said.
The wild climate ripped down trees and caused landslides near apartment buildings on Geoje Island, at the southeastern tip of the peninsula, showed photographs and images of local media.
Two nuclear reactors in the city of Gyeongju, about 375 kilometers (235 miles) southeast of Seoul, have been shut down, according to Yonhap News Agency.
More than 340 flights and 114 sea routes have been cancelled across the country, while only about 6,000 schools have switched to distance learning or reduced course hours.
Entrance to national parks and some national railways was suspended, the ministry said.
But the weather firm softened security warnings later in the day as they headed to North Korea.
President Moon Jae-in expressed his fear of additional damage imaginable in some spaces already affected by past typhoons, and called for an immediate on-site investigation so that the most affected spaces could be designated as special crisis zones and obtain more assistance.
In Japan, news firm Kyodo reported that four other people were missing and more than 50 people were injured as a result of the typhoon. The other 4 people disappeared in a village in southern Miyazaki Prefecture after a landslide hit a structure. company, Kyodo said.
Among the wounded was a woman who fell down a flight of stairs in the dark and four others who suffered cuts after the glass windows of an evacuation center exploded.
Kyushu Electric said some 290,000 homes were still in force at 1 p. m. (04:00 GMT).
Nearly 2 million more people were ordered to evacuate the area, which is still recovering from the heavy rains and July floods that killed 83 other people.
Typhoon Haishen occurs a few days after Typhoon Maysak crashed on the Korean peninsula, leaving at least two dead and thousands of electricity.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea, which had been hit by Maysak and Typhoon Bavi a week earlier, was on high alert as the typhoon approached its southeastern province of Kangwon on Monday afternoon.
Live photographs on state television, a rarity that has been broadcast for 3 weeks, showed trembling trees, high waves and flooded bridges and roads in Tongchon and Wonsan, either in Kangwon at the southern end. All the citizens of Tongchon and many other citizens of the province have been evacuated, the station said.
“Flood warnings have been issued for rivers, streams and reservoirs, as many have not yet evacuated water inflated by the past typhoon,” officer KCTV said, adding that some northern rivers could be affected by up to two hundred millimetres. rain until Tuesday.
North Korea’s agricultural sector is vulnerable to bad weather, and this summer’s storms and floods have raised considerations about the country’s precarious food situation.
The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, visited the affected coastal spaces through Maysak on Saturday and ordered party members to sign up for recovery efforts.
(Report via Sangmi Cha in Seoul and Sakura Murakami in Tokyo; Additional report of Hyonhee Shin in Seoul; Edited through Jane Wardell and Hugh Lawson)
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