{"id":54294,"date":"2023-04-13T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/japan-orders-hokkaido-residents-to-take-cover-after-north-korean-missile-launch"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T02:50:28","slug":"north-korean-missile-launch-sparks-evacuation-confusion-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54294","title":{"rendered":"North Korean missile launch sparks evacuation confusion in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities in Hokkaido issued and then retracted an alert that warned the missile could fall on the island<\/p>\n<p>A missile launch by North Korea on Thursday morning caused fear and confusion in Japan after a government-run alert system warned residents that the projectile could fall on or close to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency broadcasting system \u2013 J-Alert \u2013 told millions of people in Hokkaido to take immediate cover after the North test-fired what appeared to be a long-range missile.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/japan-orders-hokkaido-residents-to-take-cover-after-north-korean-missile-launch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities in Hokkaido issued and then retracted an alert that warned the missile could fall on the islandA missile launch by North Korea on Thursday morning caused fear and confusion in Japan after a government-run alert system warned residents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294\/revisions\/54304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}