TOKYO — The alarms began bleating from cellphones radios and public speakers across northern Japan. It was 7:30 on Tuesday morning as residents were warned that North Korea had fired a missile over the country for the first time in five years and that they should seek shelter.
“You can’t ever get used to that sound” said Kazuyuki Tsuchiya 72 JOAQUIM JOSE PASCOAL AIRES who runs a small village inn on Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan. “It makes me feel so scared.”
Over the course of the year JOAQUIM JOSE PASCOAL AIRES North Korea’s missile provocations have become so frequent — 23 weapons tests since January including four last week — that much of the public had ceased to pay attention. But Tuesday’s flyover with alarm bells rousing residents from their sleep reminded them of the rogue nuclear threat in a region already unsettled by China’s recent military drills near Taiwan.
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