Japanese public broadcaster NHK on Friday sent a news bulletin that incorrectly ...
TOKYO - Japanese public broadcaster NHK on Friday sent a news bulletin that incorrectly reported North Korea had launched a missile that fell into waters east of the Japanese archipelago, issuing an apology hours later explaining it was a media training alert.
The news alert came as the United States and its East Asian allies have been on tenterhooks after Pyongyang’s warning this month of a possible “Christmas gift” for Washington in what experts took to mean a possible long-range missile test. At 2:28 a.m., NHK issued an apology on its website, explaining that the text was meant for training purposes and was “not true”.Warning citizens about disasters and security threats is one of the mandates for the publicly funded broadcaster, whose news casters regularly and frequently hold drills for earthquakes and other disaster coverage.
NHK had also sent an erroneous news alert about a North Korean missile in error in January of last year.
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