Japan's national broadcaster NHK issued the alert but retracted it minutes later.
- The alert was a mistaken issuance of a practice text
- warned that a North Korean missile had fallen 2,000 kilometres east of Hokkaido
- if that had have been real it meant the missile would have flown over Japanese territory
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Back in 2017 NK missile launches were much more aggressive and saw yen strengthen on news of launches. A repeat of such provocations would see a similar response from yen.
