{"id":50447,"date":"2022-01-28T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=50447"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:43:17","slug":"north-korea-moved-up-dates-missile-launches-strategic-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-moved-up-dates-missile-launches-strategic-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea moved up dates of missile launches for strategic reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently carried out its fifth provocative missile launch of the year. According to a source in the country, Pyongyang moved up the dates of their launches for strategic reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities fired off two projectiles on Tuesday morning, presumably cruise missiles. Prior to this, North Korea fired a ballistic missile from Yanggang Province towards the East Sea on Jan. 5 and launched a hypersonic missile on Jan. 11, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea also launched pairs of KN-23 and KN-24 short-range ballistic missiles on Jan. 14 and 17, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a high-ranking Daily NK source on Wednesday. North Korea compressed its launch frequency to conduct five launches in 20 days to get the US to move North Korea up in its list of diplomatic priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As late as the end of last year, North Korean authorities had no plans to test so many missiles in so short a time, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, the authorities simply had plans to conduct test launches of strategic weapons timed with national holidays through the end of the year to \u201cfulfill tasks\u201d in the state\u2019s five-year defense development plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50412\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/5816411951020176-636x420.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seen speaking at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Workers\u2019 Party of Korea Central Committee. \/ Image: KCNA\/Yonhap News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, during the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee late last year, Kim called for an end to the idea that \u201ctests in the defense science sector\u201d must be timed to national holidays, and ordered officials to prepare so that the nation can conduct tests of any kind whenever the need arises. The source said the defense industry sector and State Academy of Defense Sciences responded by accelerating efforts to meet this new demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, with their concentrated barrage of missile tests, North Korean authorities reportedly hope to do two things: make North Korea a higher diplomatic priority in Washington, and resolve domestic problems with a diplomatic issue, be it conflict or dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean authorities reportedly feel a sense of crisis about being put on Washington\u2019s back burner as the Biden administration focuses on China and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, US President Joe Biden made no mention of North Korea during his press conference on Jan. 19 to mark his first year in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US responded to North Korea\u2019s consecutive ballistic missile launches with unilateral sanctions on Jan. 12 and by convening a U.N. Security Council meeting on Jan. 20, but a vote on additional sanctions came to nothing as China asked to postpone it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source said North Korean authorities want the US administration to intensify the North Korea issue with official position announcements or direct statements by high-ranking figures rather than \u201cquiet actions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He further noted that public discontent in North Korea is reaching extremes as the border closure continues, and the authorities believe that because they cannot open the border right away, they can keep existing public sentiment stable only by aggravating tensions with the \u201cUS imperialists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220126-5\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently carried out its fifth provocative missile launch of the year. According to a source in the country, Pyongyang moved up the dates of their launches for strategic reasons. North Korean authorities fired off two projectiles on Tuesday morning, presumably cruise missiles. 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