Reuters: Days after Hawaii alert gaffe, Japan issues false alarm about a missile launch
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued a false alarm about a North Korean missile launch on Tuesday, just days after a similar gaffe caused panic in Hawaii, but it managed to correct the error within minutes.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the mistake.
"We are still checking," an NHK spokesman said.
NHK's 6.55 p.m. alert said: "North Korea appears to have launched a missile ... The government urges people to take shelter inside buildings or underground."
The same alert was sent to mobile phone users of NHK's online news distribution service.
In five minutes, the broadcaster put out another message correcting itself.
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