A U.S. military base in
South Korea accidentally blared an alert siren instead of a bugle call, causing a brief scare just as the U.S. and its allies are monitoring for signs of provocation from North Korea, which has warned it could send a “Christmas gift” over deadlocked nuclear negotiations.
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The siren at Camp Casey, which is near the border with North Korea, went off by “human error" at around 10 p.m. Thursday, said Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton, a public affairs officer for the 2nd Infantry Division.
The incident came a day before Japanese broadcaster NHK caused panic by mistakenly sending a news alert saying
North Korea fired a
missile over
Japan that landed in the sea off the country’s northeastern island of Hokkaido early Friday.