A failed ballistic bullet launch sparked fear in a generally quiet South Korean megacity after it crashed into the ground and touched off a huge fire, officers said Wednesday.

Security abettors Seoul and Washington have offered multiple common drills, including bombing runs and bullet launches, in response to North Korea firing an intermediate- range ballistic bullet( IRBM) over Japan on Tuesday.

The South Korean service fired a Hyunmoo- 2 short- range ballistic bullet late Tuesday but it conked and crashed shortly after launch.The bullet’s fuel caught fire but its warhead didn’t crump, a South Korean service functionary told the Yonhap news agency.

Viral social media footage– which AFP couldn’t corroborate– showed an orange ball of dears at an area druggies said was near an air force base close to Gangneung on the country’s east seacoast.numerous frantic residers called the megacity hall,” an functionary at the Gangneung City Hall told AFP.

At first we did not know what was going on because we did not admit any notice from the service about similar training,” she added, speaking on condition of obscurity.South and North Korea remain technically at war after the 1950- 53 Korean War ended in an truce rather than a peace convention.

Fortified conflicts between the two neighbours are rare, but the bullet crash made some residers believe that war had broken out.there was a war but it turns out to be a military training,” said one stoner on Twitter.

What took them so long to confirm? If there’s a war, we will presumably find out about it the coming day,” another stoner twittered.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said there were no reported casualties and that it was looking into the cause of the crash.