2023-05-31 01:04:35
It’s a “blunder” that Seoul residents will remember. Minutes after asking its citizens to “prepare to evacuate,” Seoul said it had “incorrectly issued” its evacuation order after North Korea launched an unidentified projectile on Tuesday shortly before midnight French time. (7 hours there).
The message sent by the authorities on all mobile phones, accompanied by the sound of sirens in the city, invited residents to prepare for an evacuation by putting “children and the elderly first”. The South Korean military, however, later reported minutes later that the North Korean projectile had crossed the Yellow Sea without threatening Seoul. “We inform you that the alert issued by the Seoul Metropolitan authorities at 6:41 a.m. (11:41 p.m. in Paris) was incorrectly launched,” the Interior Ministry said.
A missile alert had also been issued in 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 alert tweeted by the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office to residents of Okinawa, and broadcast by national broadcaster NHK.
North Korea had warned of a future launch
On the side of North Korea, it is claimed to have launched a “space launcher”. An announcement which follows the confirmation, the day before, of a future launch of a military spy satellite in order to “address dangerous military actions by the United States”. Japan announced on Monday that it had been informed by North Korea of an upcoming satellite launch between May 31 and June 11.
Believing that this launch could be a disguised ballistic missile launch, the Japanese Ministry of Defense had ordered to shoot down any missile whose fall on its land or sea territory was confirmed, and had deployed SM-3 interceptor missiles for this purpose. and Patriot PAC-3 type.
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