North Korea missile tests

North Korea is back to missile tests after taking a hiatus during the Beijing Games. 

Continued missile testing by North Korea will not compel Seoul, Tokyo, or Washington to seek the negotiations Pyongyang could use to address its needs.

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.

Is North Korea trying to draw attention from the U.S. by testing missiles? 

Japan is on high alert after a frenzied series of North Korean ballistic missile tests.

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.

Just before North Korea’s representative spoke at the U.N., North Korea tested a short-range missile. 

Sometimes a missile test is just a missile test, without any grand diplomatic messaging.

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. 

North Korea test-launched newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, just after an unusual military parade.  

The recent barrage of missile tests by North Korea is part political signaling, but it also has clear military and economic motivations.

Precedent suggests North Korea will up its provocations ahead of the 2018 Olympic Games.