2023-05-30 23:57:52
Alerts were issued in South Korea and Japan after the launch of a projectile by Pyongyang. Seoul said minutes later that its evacuation order was “incorrectly issued”.
Panic in Asia, after the launch of a projectile by North Korea, presented by Pyongyang as a “space launcher”, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhapbriefly triggering alerts in Seoul and the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
“Missile launch. Missile launch. North Korea appears to have launched a missile. Please take shelter inside buildings or underground,” said the tweeted alert from the Japanese Prime Minister’s office for residents of Okinawa, and broadcast by national broadcaster NHK.
“Children and the elderly first”
However, the government canceled its alert 30 minutes later, considering that all danger had passed.
“It is expected that the missile mentioned earlier will not arrive in Japan. The call to evacuate is lifted,” he said.
South Korea also canceled an alert issued by the city of Seoul, which had sounded sirens and sent a critical emergency message to all mobile phones asking residents to prepare to evacuate by passing “children and the elderly first”.
“We inform you that the alert issued by the Seoul metropolitan authorities at 6:41 a.m. was incorrectly issued,” said the South Korean Interior Ministry.
North Korea announced on Tuesday that it would launch a “military reconnaissance satellite” in order “to deal with the dangerous military actions of the United States and its vassals”, Japan for its part believing that it would act as a disguised ballistic missile launch.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense had ordered the downing of any missile whose fall on its land or sea territory was confirmed, and had deployed SM-3 and Patriot PAC-3 type interceptor missiles for this purpose.
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