Guam radio stations accidentally play emergency alert system

Published August 15, 2017 4:31pm ET



A pair of radio stations in Guam simultaneously started an unscheduled test of the Emergency Alert Broadcast System late Tuesday evening, prompting some of the island’s 160,000 residents to worry North Korea had launched a missile toward the U.S. territory.

KTWG and KSTO accidentally issued a “civil danger warning” for the entire Pacific island.

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