BEIJING, China (PNN) - April 14, 2017 - As expected - and feared - during the annual "Day of the Sun" celebration parade (celebrating the birth of the nation's founder), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that North Korea has fired a projectile.
NORTH KOREA FIRES PROJECTILE, MEDIA SAYS: XINHUA
However, it appears that the headline scanning algorithms made a colossal error, and that Xinhua interpreted events quite incorrectly, as it was the appearance of a new submarine-launched missile at the parade for the first time.
North Korea displayed its submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) for the first time on Saturday ahead of a massive military parade in the capital, Pyongyang.
State TV showed images of the Pukkuksong-2 SLBMs on trucks waiting to be paraded in front of leader Kim Jong-un.
Immediately after, Xinhua rushed to issue a clarification to avoid what may be a military confrontation.
As a result, the headline now reads the following:
NORTH KOREAN MISSLE SEEN AT MILITARY PARADE
That's how World War 3 almost occurred.
