An American citizen living in Hokkaido recorded the moment the main Japanese island was woken up by blaring sirens announcing North Korea‘s latest missile launch.
Matthew Galat shot footage from his Hokkaido home catching the deafening announcement ordering people to take cover.
He said: “I woke up this morning with a really loud noise on my phone. The emergency alert overrides all sounds on your phone.
“It came in Japanese so I didn’t know what it was saying. Then this loud speaker was playing all throughout the city. I translated with my phone translator and it says: ‘Take shelter in a basement. North Korea just launched a missile.’ Crazy!”
The latest show of defiance from the North Korean government comes days after the United Nations approved new sanctions against the communist regime.
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The launch is the second to fly over Japan in less than a month and the first since North Korea‘s sixth nuclear test.
On Wednesday, North Korean news agency KCNA released a statement saying: “The four islands of the Japanese archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche.”
Juche is the official state ideology of North Korea as inspired by Kim Jong-un’s grandfather Kim Il-sung.
The ballistic missile flew for an estimated 3,700 km (2299 miles) before crashing into the Pacific Ocean.
The US territory of Guam stands at an equivalent distance from the crashing point, suggesting North Korea used the latest attack to send a message to the United States.
Tension between North Korea and the US exploded over the summer after President Donald Trump pledged to unleash “fire and fury” on the DPRK if it continued to threaten the United States and its Asian allies.