{"id":1359450,"date":"2022-03-04T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359450"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T02:07:55","slug":"north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile-on-unprecedented-pace-of-weapons-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile-on-unprecedented-pace-of-weapons-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Launches Suspected Ballistic Missile, On \u2018Unprecedented Pace\u2019 Of Weapons Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-launches-suspected-ballistic-missile-on-unprecedented-pace-of-weapons-testing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Kim-Jong-un.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>North Korea conducted its ninth weapons test of the year on Saturday, launching an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese prime minister\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPN_PMO\/status\/1499897247286558723\">said<\/a> that the projectile was a \u201csuspected ballistic missile.\u201d North Korea has yet to comment on the launch, and typically stays silent on weapons tests until the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The launch continues North Korea\u2019s 2022 weapons testing spree less than a week after its last test on February 27. North Korea is on an \u201cunprecedented pace\u201d of weapons testing this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2022\/03\/05\/asia-pacific\/north-korea-ninth-missile-launch\/\">The Japan Times<\/a>. Pyongyang oversaw more weapons testing in January than in all of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean military said that the projectile was launched from the Sunan area of Pyongyang at just before 9 a.m. The projectile sailed into the waters of the Sea of Japan. The projectile landed outside of Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone, which extends out from Japan 200 nautical miles, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s last weapons test was the launch of a reconnaissance satellite into space. Experts suspect that the launch was a veiled attempt at testing out long-range missile technology, which closely resembles the tech used in such satellite launches, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-05\/north-korea-fires-projectile-into-eastern-sea-yonhap-says-l0d3swyk\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s latest weapons test comes amid a two year pause in diplomatic negotiations with the United States over the nuclear disarmament of the Korean peninsula. Talks between Pyongyang and Washington stalled in 2019 over disagreements between the two sides over the release of heavy economic sanctions the U.S. has leveraged against North Korea, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-states-south-korea-north-korea-joint-chiefs-of-staff-2ba339b1be098620902a40947b5b11bc\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s suspected ballistic missile test and others are in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions and have elicited condemnations from a number of U.N. countries. North Korea\u2019s government, led by dictator Kim Jong-un, has continued to shun diplomatic outreach, though, even pushing away offers for COVID-19 vaccines from international aid groups, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/north-korea-launches-unspecified-projectile-off-its-east-coast-11646440083\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has offered to restart diplomatic discussions with Pyongyang without prior conditions. The North Korean government has refused further negotiations for two years, and its latest rounds of weapons testing also threaten to add further complications as President Joe Biden struggles to handle the war between Russia and Ukraine and also negotiate a new deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The weapons testing may also have a major impact on South Korea\u2019s government, as well, days before an election. As WSJ reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Under left-leaning President Moon Jae -in, Seoul has adopted a pro-engagement policy with Pyongyang. It is a tight race between Lee Jae-myung, a ruling party progressive, who would largely maintain Mr. Moon\u2019s approach, and Yoon Suk-yeol, a conservative who vows to take a more confrontational stance with the Kim regime.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPyongyang\u2019s threatening posture actually helps the candidate calling for peace at all costs instead of the one standing up to the tyrannical regime,\u201d said Lee Sung-yoon, a Korea expert at Tufts University\u2019s Fletcher School.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The latest missile test could be framed by Lee Jae-myung, of the Democratic Party, as Pyongyang lashing out against a hard-lined conservative and therefore voters should opt to reup with a president who will give priority to diplomacy, Prof. Lee said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea conducted its ninth weapons test of the year on Saturday, launching an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan.The Japanese prime minister\u2019s office said that the projectile was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}