North Korea fired at least one suspected ballistic missile Saturday, adding to its record number of launches this year as Kim Jong Un leads a major political meeting to set policy for 2023.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward waters off its east coast. The missile has likely already fallen, Japan’s Coast Guard said. Further details were not immediately available.
This year, Kim’s regime has already test fired about 70 ballistic missiles, the most in his decade in power and in defiance of United Nations resolutions that prohibit the launches. He has stepped up provocations in recent months in a display of anger at joint military drills in the region by the U.S. and its allies, South Korea and Japan.
