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North Korea missile tests

February 28, 2022
With Beijing Winter Olympics Concluded, North Korea Resumes Missile Test
By Mitch Shin
North Korea is back to missile tests after taking a hiatus during the Beijing Games.

February 23, 2022
North Korea Is Irrelevant Again
By Denny Roy
Continued missile testing by North Korea will not compel Seoul, Tokyo, or Washington to seek the negotiations Pyongyang could use to address its needs.

February 01, 2022
Biden Must Recalibrate Policy on North Korea
By Mitch Shin
North Korea is not testing missiles in a bid to entice the U.S. into talks. Pyongyang is honing its missile arsenal as a goal in and of itself.

January 27, 2022
North Korea Conducts Its Sixth Round of Missile Tests This Month
By Mitch Shin
Is North Korea trying to draw attention from the U.S. by testing missiles?

January 16, 2022
Japan’s North Korea Missile Woes
By Thisanka Siripala
Japan is on high alert after a frenzied series of North Korean ballistic missile tests.

January 14, 2022
After Denouncing New US Sanctions, North Korea Fires 2 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles
By Mitch Shin
After the U.S. imposed sanctions on six North Korean individuals in the wake of the recent missile launches, Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles eastward.

September 28, 2021
North Korea Fires Unidentified Short-Range Missile Off Its East Coast
By Mitch Shin
Just before North Korea’s representative spoke at the U.N., North Korea tested a short-range missile.

September 20, 2021
What Do North Korea’s Latest Missile Launches Mean?
By Mitch Shin
Sometimes a missile test is just a missile test, without any grand diplomatic messaging.

September 15, 2021
North Korea Fires 2 Ballistic Missiles Off Its East Coast
By Mitch Shin
The North’s missile launch came amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings in Seoul and Tokyo. Seoul quickly followed up with its own SLBM test.

September 13, 2021
In Signal to the US, North Korea Tests New Long-Range Cruise Missiles
By Mitch Shin
North Korea test-launched newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, just after an unusual military parade.

December 04, 2019
What’s Behind North Korea’s Missile Testing?
By Liang Tuang Nah
The recent barrage of missile tests by North Korea is part political signaling, but it also has clear military and economic motivations.

October 20, 2017
How North Korea Will Try to Undermine the Winter Olympics in South Korea
By Harry Kim
Precedent suggests North Korea will up its provocations ahead of the 2018 Olympic Games.