Japan`s authorities entreated Hokkaido citizens to take refuge Thursday morning after a North Korean missile launch, however neighborhood officers later stated the missile could now no longer land close to the northern region.

“Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately,” the authorities stated in an preliminary caution, telling citizens of Hokkaido to take refuge in a constructing or underground.

The caution stated the missile changed into predicted to land round 8:00 am neighborhood time (2300 GMT). But now no longer lengthy after, Asahikawa town in Hokkaido tweeted that there has been not any difficulty of danger.

“After we showed the information, there may be no opportunity that the missile will fall on Hokkaido or regions across the region,” the account stated, bringing up the country wide authorities’s emergency network. Japan’s coast protect stated the missile changed into believed to have landed.

It did now no longer deliver actual info of where, however stated there has been “not a opportunity” it’d fall close to Hokkaido.