North Korea reportedly fires ballistic missile over Japan

A North Korean missile fired in May 2017.
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North Korea has fired a missile over Japan, Japanese broadcaster NHK announced Monday. The missile was fired from a region near Pyongyang and was headed toward northern Japan before landing in the East Sea, the South Korean military said. The Japanese government had alerted citizens in several prefectures, including Fukushima, Nagano, and Iwate, to "evacuate to a sturdy building or basement."

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.