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North Korean Missile Alert Sparks Fear and Confusion in Japan
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April 13, 2023
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0:43Now PlayingJapan’s decision to alert people on the sprawling northern island of Hokkaido that a North Korean missile might be heading their way touched off a social media storm, with many asking for a few more specifics on a location.
Hashtags that can translate as “where in Hokkaido?” and “too broad” trended on Twitter in Japan on Thursday, after the government asked people to take shelter immediately. The island covers about the same area as Austria, and stretches at points along a distance nearly as far as Baltimore is from Boston.
The alert issued at 7:55 a.m. told people to evacuate immediately to a building or underground, because a missile was expected to fall in the Hokkaido area at about 8:00 a.m.
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