Now To Asia Where A Deadly Cold Snap Is
Sweeping Across The Region Causing
Record Low Temperatures And Disruption
The Freezing Weather Has Affected
Millions Of People From Japan And The South
Korea To Afghanistan, Which Is Experiencing Its Coldest Winter In 15 Years
People In China's Northernmost City, MOI,
And No Strangers To The Cold
The Temperature Here Can Stay Below Freezing
For Up To Eight Months Of The Year But
This Week, Things Are Especially Chilly
Temperatures Plunged To Minus 53 Degrees
Celsius's The Coldest Day Ever Recorded
Northern China Has Been Hit Hard By The
Freezing Front Affecting Asia Roads Are
Covered In Snow, Rail Tracks Are Frozen
With Thick Ice here In Junkie, Cycling Isn't An Option Either
The Cold Sweepers Caused Sea Ice In
Northeastern Along Bay To Expand Rapidly
It's Not Just China That's Freezing
Japan Is Also Experiencing Record Low
Temperatures Heavy Snow Is Blanketing
Large Parts Of The Country With 93
Centimeters Falling On The City Of Money
We're, In Just 24 Hours
In South Korea, Nearly 500 Flights In And
Out Of The Resort Island Jean, Were
Canceled On Tuesday Due To The Weather
Meanwhile, In Central Asia, The Weather Is
Proving Deadly In Afghanistan
Temperatures Have Dropped To Minus 34
Degrees In Parts And More Than 120
People Are Reported To Have Died
We Are Having So Many Problems With This
Cold Weather We Have No Coal, No Stove
And Our Children Have No Warm Clothes
The Cold Is Deepening The Humanitarian
The Crisis Facing The Country Since The
Taliban Took Control
Afghan Winter Makes Everything A Lot
More Difficult And We're Very Conscious
Of The Season And The Timing And As
You Say We See Some Of The Consequences
In Loss Of Life, This Is Within A Context
Of 6 Million
People, It's An Astonishing Number Of
People Knocking On Famine's Door
The Bitter Temperatures Are Plunging
Much Of Afghanistan's Struggling
Population Further Into Poverty This
The Year Marks The Harshest Winter In A Long
Time In Large Parts Of Asia And For The
Millions Affected Spring Can't Come Soon
Enough
Well The Cold Snap Is Hitting Korea Hard
Too Uh For More, We're Joined By Frank
Smith, A Freelance Journalist Reporting
From Seoul Uh Tell Us, Frank, About How
The Severe Weather Is Affecting The
South Korean Capital well It Reached A Minus 25 And Minus 28
Including Wind Chill Here In The South
Korean Capital Is One Of Those
Stories That Hit Close To Home
Here And I Live In A High-rise A
Modern High-rise Just Completed A Couple
Of Years Ago And The Pipes Froze In The
The Lobby Of My Building, And They Burst And
Water
Spewed Out Across The Lobby Area Of
The Building And Then That Froze
Creating Something Of An Ice Rink As
Your Earlier Report Mentioned There Are
Been Record Snowfall On Check, Island
That's A Semi-tropical Island That's The
The Southernmost Point Of South Korea
Causing Delays And Suspension Of Flights
They've Recently I Think Wednesday And
And Early Today Resumed Those Flights
Despite The Cold Temperatures Here In
The South Korean Capital And Even
Extended The Time That The Airport In Uh
N Seoul Accepted Those Flights
Uh, The Also South Korean Government
Has Responded To This Uh Opening Up And
Preparing 7 000 Cold Shelters In The
The Capital Region As Well As Salting Roads
Back On January 15th, There Were Hundreds
Of Auto Accidents With A Deluge Of
Snow Here In South Korea And
So They Wanted To Prevent That And We're
A Little Bit More Ready For This Uh
Current Snowfall Terry
That Does Sound Extreme Frank What About
The Korean Peninsula In General I
Understand North Korea Has Been Hit Hard
As Well
Well It's Possibly An Even A Bigger Problem
Certainly A Cold Snap In North Korea
North Korea If You've Ever Seen
Satellite Imagery Nighttime Satellite
The Imagery Of North Korea You Know That
Electricity Outside The Capital
Pyongyang Is Kind Of Rare And Looking
In North And South Ham Young Province
Those Are In The Northern Regions Of
North Korea Is Close To Russia, Those Areas
Again Suffer From A Lack Of Electricity
People Heat Their Homes Using Wood And
And Dried Plants, So There Have Been
Reports Especially Of Concern For That
Area Radio Free Asia Reported Last Year
Cases Of Many People Going Missing And
Assumed Frozen While They Were Outside
Food Insecurity Is Also A Related
The Concern Is So As North Korea Sealed Its
Border With China For A Long Period Of
Time Due To The Covid-19 Pandemic So
That Food Insecurities Is Something That
Uh Experts And Food Security Experts
Here In South Korea Are Also Worried
About There In North Korea's
Northern Provinces Terry Uh Just Very
Quickly Frank What's The Forecast
The Forecast Is For Things To Warm Up A
A Bit There They Are Still Tough
Forecasting Either Some Type Of
Precipitation, Either Rain Or Snow And
Just On A Related Issue, South Korea Is
Kind Of Uh Experienced Something Of An
Energy Price Boom As Well With The
Ukraine War Affecting Energy Prices
Around The World, South Korea Imports
100 Of Its Oil So The Government Has Had
To Step Up And Provide Uh Subsidies For
For People To Heat Their Homes
Especially The Underprivileged Here
In South Korea, Terry Thank You Very Much
Uh Freelance Journalist Frank Smith
Reporting From Seoul, South Korea
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