North, South brace for strong typhoon, flights halted 26 August 2020, by Kim Tong-Hyung

Thursday. The agency warned of possible severe damage caused by very strong winds and heavy rainfall.

In Jeju, strong winds and rain knocked out power to hundreds of homes and damaged buildings, trees, streetlamps, telephone poles, road barriers and signboards, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.

More than 480 domestic flights in and out of Jeju and the southern mainland city of Busan were canceled as of Wednesday evening. South Korean authorities also shut public parks and sea bridges and moved hundreds of fishing boats and other High waves crash onto Haeundae Beach in Busan, vessels, the ministry said. , Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, as Typhoon Bavi approaches the Korean Peninsula. Hundreds of flights were canceled in South Korea while 's leader expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their peninsula this year.(Jo Jong-ho/Yonhap via AP)

Hundreds of flights were canceled in South Korea while North Korea's leader expressed concern about a possible loss of lives and crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their peninsula this year.

Packing a maximum wind speed of 155 kilometers This Aug. 25, 2020, satellite image released by NASA (96 miles) per hour, Typhoon Bavi was already shows Typhoon Bavi near South Korean island of Jeju. lashing South Korea's southern resort island of Typhoon Bavi as of Wednesday morning was near the Jeju on Wednesday afternoon, flooding roads, South Korean island of Jeju and was on course to hit the toppling trees, ripping off signboards and knocking northwest coast of the Korean Peninsula around down lampposts as it passed over waters off the daybreak Thursday morning. South Korea's weather island's western shores. There were no immediate agency said it had a maximum wind speed of 155 reports of casualties. kilometers per hour (96 mph) and was forecast as one of the strongest to hit the peninsula this year. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and South Korea's weather agency said the typhoon Information System (EOSDIS) via AP) would begin affecting the mainland at night before making landfall in western North Korea early

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Fishing boats are tied at a port in Mokpo, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, as Typhoon Bavi An electronic signboard shows canceled flights at Jeju approaches the Korean Peninsula. Hundreds of flights International Airport on Jeju Island, South Korea, were canceled in South Korea while North Korea's leader Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Hundreds of flights were expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and canceled in South Korea while North Korea's leader crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching peninsula this year.(Park Chul-hong/Yonhap via AP) typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their peninsula this year.(Byun Ji-chul/Yonhap via AP)

In the capital, Seoul, and other cities, health workers dismantled at least 75 makeshift coronavirus testing stations over worries that the tents and booths might not withstand strong winds.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said that during a ruling party meeting on Tuesday, the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, called for thorough preparations to minimize casualties and damage from the typhoon. The storm comes weeks after torrential rains caused flooding and massive damage to homes and crops in North Korea, inflicting further pain to an economy ravaged by pandemic-linked border closures and U.S.-led

sanctions over the North's nuclear program. The root of a roadside tree are seen pulled out by strong winds as the Typhoon Bavi landed on Jeju Island, South KCNA said earlier that a typhoon warning was Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Hundreds of flights issued in most areas of the country, with officials were canceled in South Korea while North Korea's leader moving fishing boats and applying protective expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and measures to buildings, farms and railroads. crops as the countries braced for a fast-approaching typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their In , authorities suspended ferry services peninsula this year.(Byun Ji-chul/Yonhap via AP) across the Yellow Sea from the northern port of to the cities of Weihai and Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula as the typhoon closed in on the region. The government of Dalian, a city of 7

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million people, urged people to stay indoors as much as possible on Wednesday and Thursday.

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