North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test has rattled the West as it rallies around Ukraine amid Russia's invasion, raising questions about the launch's timing.
The Thursday launch, conducted while world leaders gathered in Brussels, is North Korea's most significant weapons test in more than four years, according to analysts. Experts"make fun" of others who speculate about the timing of the incidents, according to Tom Karako, the Center for Strategic and International Studies's Missile Defense Project director.
"I don't think we should look at this or the timing as 'this is sending such and such a message,'" Gomez said."The message was already sent at the [8th Congress] of, 'We're a nuclear power now —we're going to continue to test and develop just like every nuclear power does.'" "Some people read a great deal into the timing of these launches as if it's all about us," Eberstadt added."My theory is that military equipment has to be tested, so it gets tested, and within the parameters of available windows for testing, sometimes the North Korean government tries to game its adversaries overseas."
The launch breaks the nuclear and ICBM testing moratorium North Korea self-imposed in 2018, the same year Kim met former President Donald Trump in Singapore for the first U.S.-North Korea leader summit. "I would also just say that the Biden administration is about to release its new missile defense review in the coming days or weeks," he said."I think this ratifies the bipartisan path that we're on in terms of homeland missile defense."
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