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North Korea's choice of early morning hours today (9th) is like a 'show off' that missiles can be launched anytime, anywhere.
They are shooting from here and there day and night, but the problem is that North Korea is coming out more and more aggressively.
Ahn Jung-sik, a reporter specializing in North Korea, analyzed it.
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I analyzed the timing of North Korea's missile launch, which has been ongoing since the 25th of last month.
In many cases, they were fired early in the morning, but they were fired just before 9 pm, and today, an unusual time of day called dawn was chosen.
The launch location is also varied.
Following Pyongyang, North and South Pyongan Provinces, and Jagang Province, today, launches have been carried out all over North Korea, even to Gangwon Province.
It is a threat that can be launched anytime, anywhere.
[Shin Jong-woo / Secretary General of the Korea Defense Security Forum: The launch location and time are often unusual, and the launch interval is particularly short, which seems to be intended to increase the impact effect through a surprise attack.]
It is noteworthy that North Korea is increasingly aggressive that it is showing up.
In the past, US strategic assets seemed to falter when deployed near the Korean Peninsula.
As the US is involved in the Ukraine war in Europe, it seems that there will be a limit to the US's attention even if North Korea comes out on the offensive, and it also seems to have an intention to help Russia, a friendly country, by distracting the US.
In celebration of Putin's 70th birthday two days ago, Kim Jong-un also said that cooperation between North Korea and Russia is being strengthened like never before.
Thorough preparation has become important as North Korea's offensive moves may extend to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) or the NLL area in the West Sea as North Korea-China-Russia cooperation is intensifying, such as China and Russia opposing sanctions against North Korea at the United Nations.
(Video editing: Park Chun-bae)