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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Daewoung Kim and Joori Roh

Residents near fiery South Korean missile crash 'thought it was a war'

People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile over Japan, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Hours after North Korea flew a ballistic missile over neighbouring Japan on Tuesday, residents in a South Korean seaside town were startled to see flames leaping from a nearby military base and missiles soaring into the sky.

It wasn't the start of a war, but a South Korean display of military force that went wrong in a blaze of burning rocket fuel.

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