North Korea fired artillery pieces into the sea days after its failed missile launch, the South Korea Defense Ministry said.
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea test-fired possibly its biggest-yet intercontinental ballistic missile toward the sea Thursday, according to its neighbors, raising the ante in a pressure campaign aimed at forcing the United States and other rivals to accept it as a nuclear power and remove crippling sanctions.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Ministry said the ICBM missile fired from the Sunan area near capital Pyongyang traveled 1,080 kilometers while reaching a maximum altitude of over 6,200 kilometers . This indicated the missile was fired on a higher-than-usual angle to avoid reaching the territorial waters of Japan.
Kim may also feel a need to trumpet his military accomplishments to his domestic audience and drum up loyalty as he grapples with a broken economy worsened by pandemic border closures. It was North Korea's 12th round of weapons launches this year and came after it fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday.
North Korea's official media insisted that the two successful tests were aimed at developing cameras and other systems for a spy satellite. Analysts say the North is clearly attempting to simultaneously resume ICBM testing and acquire some level of space-based reconnaissance capability under the pretense of a space launch to reduce international backlash to those moves.
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