Graphic illustrating the DPRK’s three ballistic missile launches during March (Photo: Yonhap Graphic).
A Rodong (Nodong) medium-range ballistic missile was fired from Sukch’o’n County, South P’yongan Province, and landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) at 5:50 AM KST on March 18 (Friday). ROK sources believe that the missile was fired from a transporter-erector-launcher [TEL]. This would mark the second mobile missile launch by the DPRK within a week following a mobile missile drill in which two missiles were launched from outside Sariwo’n, North Hwanghae Province on March 10, later implicitly identified as a SPOD [sea port of debarkation] test in state media reporting. Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) was not observed to have attended today’s (March 18) missile launch.
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