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- North Korea fires unidentified projectile to the east, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday
- This will probably be the last rocket launch by a nuclear-armed country
- North Korea has resumed missile tests after a long-running self-imposed moratorium
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile east to the sea JapanAccording to South Koreais military.
The launch came after North Korea conducted seven rounds of missile tests, including the launch of a medium-range ballistic missile on January 30th.
The launch on Sunday morning will be Kim Jong Un the eighth demonstration of the regime’s strength this year.
This photo, published by the official Korean Central News Agency of North Korea last month, shows an exercise to shoot a railway missile regiment held in North Pyongyang province
Pedestrians pass by a screen showing a map explaining the launch of a North Korean missile from the country’s land to the Sea of Japan (photo from the September 2021 file)
Sunday morning’s launch will be the eighth demonstration of Kim Jong Un’s regime this year
Last month, North Korea said it was lifting its long-standing self-imposed moratorium on long-range nuclear and missile tests, suggesting it could take further provocative action in the future.
The ongoing jingling of Pyongyang’s sword comes amid a stalemate in nuclear talks with Washington.
Sunday’s launch comes a month after North Korea launched a medium-range ballistic missile, the Hwasong-12, the largest weapon fired since 2017, in a test that limited the record month of launches of mostly short-range missiles in January.
Amid stalled denuclearization talks with the United States, North Korea has suggested it could resume tests of its longer-range missiles or even nuclear weapons.
North Korea is testing a Hwasong-12 intermediate and long-range ballistic missile test. Pictured here in 2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observes what state media reports is a test of a hypersonic missile in an undiscovered location in North Korea last month
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