Japan briefly issued a rare emergency alert for Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday, urging residents to take shelter after North Korea launched what Seoul said was a “space launch vehicle” that may have failed in-flight.
Japan’s J-Alert warning system urged people in Okinawa to “take shelter inside a building or underground immediately” at around 6:30 a.m. The warning — the eighth time the alert had been issued over a North Korean missile launch — was lifted around 30 minutes later, after the Japan Coast Guard said the projectile was believed to have splashed down.
North Korean officials on Monday informed Japan and international authorities of a plan to launch its first military satellite before June 11, and the rocket fired Wednesday may have been carrying this payload.
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