North Korea on Sunday tested its most powerful missile since 2017, ramping up the firepower for its record-breaking seventh launch this month as Seoul warned nuclear and long-range tests could be next, AFP reports.
Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before and last week threatened to abandon a nearly five-year-long self-imposed moratorium on testing long-range and nuclear weapons. With peace talks with the US stalled, North Korea has doubled down on leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to modernize the regime’s armed forces, flexing Pyongyang’s military muscles despite biting international sanctions.
Sunday’s ballistic missile was estimated to have hit a maximum altitude of 1,243 miles and flown around 497 miles for half an hour, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
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“Pyongyang has never test-fired this many missiles in a calendar month before.”
North Korea is setting records under Biden. Kim Jong Un will soon make it into the Guinness Book of World Records, thanks to Biden. But no doubt, just as Biden played down any “minor incursions” that Russia might take in Ukraine, he is playing down these so-called “minor incursions” from North Korea, while emphasizing that the only salvation from all these hostilities is a booster shot and a good-fitting mask.