North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the waters off its east coast -- the latest in what has been a record year for test launches by the Kim Jong Un regime.
The launches, reported by both South Korean and Japanese authorities, marked the 35th day this year that North Korea has conducted a missile test. They follow North Korea’s claim on Friday that it had successfully tested a solid-fueled rocket motor, a development that could lead to Kim’s regime being able to more quickly and reliably fire an intercontinental ballistic missile in the future. North Korea’s last known missile test was on November 18, when it launched a Hwasong-17 ICBM.
North Korea has been testing missiles and components of a range of sizes this year. Ankit Panda, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNN last week that the pace of testing this year shows Pyongyang has emerged as a missile power. “The bigger picture is that North Korea is literally turning into a prominent operator of large-scale missile forces,” Panda said.
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