Days after Hawaii alert gaffe, Japan issues false alarm about a missile launch

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:06 PM
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excerpted from
https://www.yahoo.com/news/now-japanese-tv-issues-false-alarm-missile-launch-104605205.html
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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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