Finally, one of the professors came and opened a door and everyone just sprinted in.' 'We ran somewhere else, but nothing was open. 'When I first got there, there were guys just trying to break down the door,' Griffin said. 'The building I ran to was actually locked.' 'I just sprinted and was calling my parents and I really didn't know what to do,' Griffin said about the moment after she got the alert. Olivia Griffin, an 18-year-old student at the University of Hawaii, described to BuzzFeed News in an interview on Sunday a scene of chaos around the dorms on campus after the alert was sent, with students running to concrete classrooms. Brian Schatz of Hawaii said after the false alert was sent that it 'terrified residents and visitors, and it undermined our ability to notify the public in a real emergency.' In December, officials restarted statewide testing of Cold War–era sirens meant to warn of a nuclear attack. Hawaii launched a preparedness plan last year for what people should do in case North Korea does fire a missile at the state.

Instead, they are located in Alaska and California and have been used to successfully shoot down test versions of North Korean missiles. In Hawaii, there's little defense against a missile attack, as the state does not have its own interceptors. In September, North Korea did detonate a nuclear test, which showed that they may be able to produce a weapon in the range of about 100 kilotons, the defense official said. Pyongyang has claimed that it could carry a nuclear warhead, but it has not actually demonstrated the capability of having the payload survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, according to a Hawaii Department of Defense official who spoke with BuzzFeed News. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has launched at least 10 missile tests since President Donald Trump took office, including the country's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile test last summer. The alert turned out to be false, but it wasn't corrected for nearly 40 minutes, and came amid rising tensions with North Korea.

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