The Japanese government activated its emergency alert system early Wednesday morning after North Korea appeared to launch what the government suspected could be a ballistic missile.

“North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile,” the Japanese prime minister’s office said. “PM’s instructions: 1. Dedicate maximum effort to gather & analyze information, & provide the public speedy & adequate information. 2. Ensure the safety of aircraft, vessels, & other assets. 3. Take all possible measures for precaution, incl. readiness for contingencies.”

PM’s instructions (06:32)

1. Dedicate maximum effort to gather & analyze information, & provide the public speedy & adequate information.

2. Ensure the safety of aircraft, vessels, & other assets.

3. Take all possible measures for precaution, incl. readiness for contingencies.

— PM's Office of Japan (@JPN_PMO) May 30, 2023

Japan alerted those living in the southern region of Okinawa to “please take shelters inside buildings or underground.”

About half an hour after the alert, the government canceled the alert, writing: “It is expected that the missile reported earlier will not come to Japan.”

#UPDATE Some 30 minutes after the warning, Japan's government tweets that the alert was cancelled. "It is expected that the missile reported earlier will not come to Japan," it said.

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 30, 2023

The news comes after Japan signaled at the start of the week that it would begin shooting down missiles fired into its territory.

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“We will take destructive measures against ballistic and other missiles that are confirmed to land in our territory,” Japan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Missile launches are becoming increasingly common from North Korea as dictator Kim Jong Un likes to engage in frequent saber rattling.

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the waters off the Korean Peninsula back in late March, according to CNN, just as the U.S. and South Korea were conducting their largest joint military exercises in the region since 2017.

Actor Keanu Reeves has long enjoyed a reputation for being a genuinely nice guy — and according to a throwback photo posted by “Underworld” star Kate Beckinsale, that reputation is well-deserved.

Beckinsale recalled a moment at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, when she walked the red carpet alongside Reeves, Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and Robert Sean Leonard to promote their film adaption of the Shakespearean comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.” A slight mishap with her undergarments, she explained, resulted in both Reeves and Leonard helping her hold things in place as the three actors stepped in front of the cameras.

“So my mum DID find one of the original Cannes pictures but unfortunately it’s not full length so you can’t see the Dr. Martens. Fun fact though: I had bought the bodysuit in the Sock Shop at the airport and when I got in the car to drive to the premiere with Denzel and Pauletta Washington, all the poppers in the crotch popped themselves open and it flipped up like a roller blind,” Beckinsale wrote, describing what could have been a truly mortifying experience in the caption.

“I didn’t feel it was appropriate to go delving around in my undercarriage with all of us in the back of the car so I just quietly panicked,” she added, noting that  she was about to step onto a red carpet with a half dozen Hollywood A-listers and still hadn’t figured out a way to resolve the issue.

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“Walked out onto the biggest red carpet of my life and whispered to Keanu and Robert Sean Leonard what had happened,” she said, adding that the two quickly helped her cover. “In this picture I am holding the front gusset down and the two of them are holding the back gusset. Absolute legends who may not even have fully understood the physics of what was happening or even heard the word ‘gusset’ before[, ]but both jumped in to save me no questions asked x #muchadoaboutnothing #cannes1993.”