(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 05 - A South Korean ballistic missile crashed to the ground in the early hours of today in Gangneung, in the north-east of the country, during joint exercises with the United States, panicking the residents of the coastal city already shaken by the North Korea's increasingly provocative missile tests.
The Washington Post reports.
The explosion and subsequent fire caused by the missile, the paper writes, led many to believe it was a North Korean attack.
Subsequently, the Major State of Seoul announced that it was an accident and that there were no injuries.
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