Local authorities in Hokkaido issued and then retracted an alert that warned the missile could fall on the island
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“We did not correct the information issued by J-Alert,” the chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, told a news conference. On Thursday, a student told public broadcaster NHK that the alert had caused momentary alarm at a train station in Hokkaido. “For a second in the train there was panic, but a station worker told us to calm down, and people did,” said the man, whom NHK did not name.
Local government officials in Hokkaido later said there was “no possibility” of the missile hitting the island., when a North Korean intermediate-range missile flew over Japan in a launch that demonstrated the potential to reach the US Pacific territory of Guam.
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