Japan sends out false missile alarm

Japan’s public broadcast system issued a false alert Tuesday morning, warning residents through its internet site and Twitter to take cover from an incoming North Korean missile. The system sent out a correction minutes later. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sent a similar false alarm Saturday, but its system wouldn’t allow a correction for nearly 40 minutes, sending residents into a panic. Like in Hawaii, Japanese officials blamed the false warning on an employee error, but the Japanese false alarm seemed far more credible. North Korea has fired a ballistic missile over Japan in the past, and residents were warned at the time to seek shelter.