Back to the old drawing board

As is so often the case, the story doesn't quite bear out the hed:

The missile flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific about 2,000km east of Hokkaido, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in a hastily organised media conference.

Hard to tell if someone watched too much Rocky and Bullwinkle, too little Roadrunner vs. Coyote, or a little of both.