Early Tuesday morning North Korea launched a missile that went OVER Japan. Naturally people freaked out.

CNN - North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning over Japan on Tuesday for the first time in five years, a highly provocative and reckless act that marks a significant escalation in its weapons testing program.

The missile traveled over northern Japan early in the morning, and is believed to have landed in the Pacific Ocean. The last time North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan was in 2017.

North Korea has been totally sanctioned by the West and virtually cut off from the world. Because we don't do diplomacy anymore, and we've already played every other card, that leaves brinkmanship as our only possible response.

South Korean and American troops fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday, and the allies earlier staged a bombing drill with fighter jets in the Yellow Sea.

Sounds normal...except for one small item. It isn't true.

(AP) — A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea’s successful launch a day earlier of a weapon that flew over Japan and has the range to strike the U.S. territory of Guam.

The explosion and subsequent fire panicked and confused residents of the coastal city of Gangneung, who were already uneasy over the increasingly provocative weapons tests by rival North Korea. Their concern that it could be a North Korean attack only grew as the military and government officials provided no explanation about the explosion for hours.

So the South Korea/U.S. response to the North Korean missile test was to launch our own missiles. However, when we tried to respond in kind our missile blew up.
The military was embarrassed and refused to comment on it for hours, which led people to believe that it was a North Korean attack.

Kwon Seong-dong, a governing party lawmaker representing Gangneung, wrote on Facebook that a “weapons system operated by our blood-like taxpayer money ended up threatening our own people” and called for the military to thoroughly investigate the missile failure. He also criticized the military for not issuing a notice about the failure while maintaining a media embargo on the joint drills.

That's like responding to a wolf killing your flock of sheep, by shooting one of your sheep.