From:
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North Korean missile passed over Japan, before falling into the sea:
Japanese broadcaster NHK
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile that passed over Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters early Tuesday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/japanese-government-warns-north-korea-missile-headed-toward-northern-japan-report-says.html
A South Korean military official told NBC News that the projectile was
fired around 5:57 a.m. local time on Tuesday. U.S. Pacific Command
projected that the missile will splash down at 6:29 a.m. local time.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the Japanese government warned that
a North Korean missile was headed toward the Tohoku region at the northern
end of the country. NHK also reported that Japan took no action to shoot
down the projectile.
The Japanese government has urged people in Tohoku to take refuge in solid buildings or underground shelters, according to NHK.
On Monday, U.S. and Japanese servicemen concluded joint exercises in
Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost major island.
A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC that this would be the first missile test to pass over Japan on a high altitude trajectory. In 1998,
North Korea fired a missile through Japanese airspace.
Tensions surrounding North Korea's missile tests have ratcheted up
throughout the summer as Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump
engaged in a war of words.
Trump previously warned Pyongyang that threats against the U.S. would be
met with "fire and fury." North Korean state media subsequently responded
by saying that it was considering striking the U.S. territory of Guam.
### - whew! but half hour flight time? wtf was he shootin' at??
it's only about 20 minutes to guam! (hah) :)
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