Alarm in South Korea and Japan: A North Korean missile had appeared on the radar screens – and crashed into the sea a short time later. On board, however, was not a warhead, but a spy satellite..
Area. Alarm sirens in Seoul, South Korea, and the Okinawa region of Japan. The background to this was disturbing activities in North Korea. The regime in Pyongyang wanted to launch a military spy satellite into space for the first time. The city of Okinawa sounded the alarm, and South Korea responded with sirens and frantic text messages.