SEOUL: An emergency evacuation alert sent in error across Seoul over a North Korean rocket launch triggered widespread panic on Wednesday (May 31), crashing internet services and ra
triggered widespread panic on Wednesday , crashing internet services and raising fears the government could not be trusted to handle a real crisis.
Naver, South Korea's largest internet portal, told AFP its network went down for around five minutes due to the excess traffic sparked by the alert.A South Korean soldier walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on May 31, 2023. "We inform you that the alarm sent at 0641 was incorrectly issued," a second alert said.
This handout photo taken on May 31, 2023 and provided by South Korean Defence Ministry in Seoul shows an object presumed to be part of North Korea's claimed 'Space Launch Vehicle' being salvaged by South Korea's military in waters 200km west of Eocheong Island in the Yellow Sea. But it flew over waters west of the peninsula and not the Seoul metro area, the South Korean military later confirmed.
"They didn't tell us why we needed to evacuate, nor did they tell us where we needed to go," wrote user @duckdo_1226.Another Seoul resident @pedestrian_1234 tweeted that the evacuation order triggered serious panic. The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, and the North and the South remain technically at war.The alert fiasco speaks to a constant security problem facing South Korea, Minseon Ku, a political science scholar at Ohio State University, told AFP.
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