North Korea fires unidentified projectile, South Korea military says
South Korea has said North Korea has fired an unidentified missile off of the country's west coast on Tuesday (May 26).
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SEOUL — North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off the country's west coast on Tuesday (May 26), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
If confirmed as a missile launch, it would be the first since April 19, when North Korea test-fired several short-range ballistic missiles, which it said were equipped with cluster bombs.
In early April, Pyongyang also said it tested a new cluster-bomb warhead on a ballistic missile and an electromagnetic weapon, in a move that analysts said was part of efforts to showcase the North's capacity to fight a modern war.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in March that his country's status as a nuclear-armed state was irreversible and that expanding a "self-defensive nuclear deterrent" was essential to national security.
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