Japan govt warns North Korea missile headed toward northern Japan

NHK and Reuters headlines

• Japanese government warns North Korea missile headed towards Northern Japan
• Government warns people in Northern Japan to tak precautions against possible North Korean missile

The Japanese government issuing an emergency warning. While North Korea is often firing off missiles this is an escalation

Warnings for Hokkaido, Tohoku ... more .... alert issued for Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata and Nagano prefectures

USD/JPY has fallen 50 or so points (yen buying)

More:

• NHK says North Korea missile has passed over Japan
• NHK report missile passed over Hokkaido at 6.06am Japan time

As I said above, this is an escalation.

More;

• South Korean military confirm missile flew over Japanese air space