Uijeongbu City Conducts 2024 Eulji Exercise... Holds Initial Situation Report Meeting

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Chung-young] Uijeongbu City held an Initial Situation Report Meeting on the 19th at the City Hall Grand Conference Room to mark the start of the 2024 Eulji Exercise.

The meeting was attended by approximately 100 people, including Mayor Kim Sung-je of Uijeongbu City, deputy mayors, department and division heads, and officials from the military, police, and fire departments of Uijeongbu City, during which they reviewed the status of exercise preparation that reflects the changing security situation to establish emergency preparedness for Uijeongbu City.

The Eulji Exercise is a nationwide total national mobilization exercise in which crisis management emergency preparedness drills are conducted to protect the lives and property of citizens in the event of a national emergency.

The Uijeongbu City Eulji Exercise will run for four days from the 19th through the 22nd, including wartime organization training, operation of wartime integrated situation rooms and wartime establishment organizations, and actual training by related agencies. Coordinating among civilians, government, military, police, and fire departments is planned to establish integrated defense capabilities for Uijeongbu City linked with nationwide civil defense drills for air raid preparedness.

Mayor Kim Sung-je of Uijeongbu City said, "For strengthening regional defense and protecting the lives and property of citizens, the emergency preparedness performance and crisis response capabilities of civil servants are more important than ever," and added, "Through a substantive Eulji Exercise, I hope to enhance citizens' awareness of security and achieve results in further strengthening our city's emergency preparedness posture."