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Japanese Government Misinformation On North Korea's Rocket Launch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Taoka Shunji  and
Kenji Hasegawa
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The Japanese government has described the North Korean rocket launched on February 7 as “a long range ballistic missile disguised as a satellite launching vehicle.” Even after it was confirmed that a satellite was in orbit it has kept that rhetoric. As the Japanese public, as well as journalists, generally lack knowledge of missiles, they are easily manipulated by government misinformation.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 8 , April 2016 , e3
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