- North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the sea, South Korea and Japan said, in the first such launch by Pyongyang this year.
- In the decade since Kim Jong Un took power, North Korea has seen rapid progress in its military technology at the cost of international sanctions.
- The nuclear-armed nation’s first apparent weapons launch of 2022 followed a year of major arms tests despite the severe economic hardship during the coronavirus pandemic.
