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North Korea fired an unidentified projectile disconnected the country’s westbound seashore connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said successful a statement.
If confirmed arsenic a rocket launch, it would beryllium the archetypal since April 19, erstwhile North Korea test-fired respective short-range ballistic missiles, which it said were equipped with clump bombs.
In aboriginal April, Pyongyang besides said it tested a caller cluster-bomb warhead connected a ballistic rocket and an electromagnetic weapon, successful a move that analysts said was portion of efforts to showcase the North’s capableness to combat a modern war.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in March that his country’s presumption arsenic a nuclear-armed authorities was irreversible and that expanding a “self-defensive atomic deterrent” was indispensable to national security.
