Air raid sirens and wartime evacuation alerts jolted Seoul residents from their slumbers early Wednesday morning, leading even those desensitized to North Korean threats to worry about an imminent attack.

29-year-old Park Somi said the warnings to seek shelter left her terrified. 

“When I woke up to the sound of the emergency alert this morning, I instantly thought of the situation in Ukraine right now,” she told NK News. “I panicked with the fear of possibly losing my husband in a war. I held onto him and cried.”

The Korean-language notification pushed out to phones across the South