North Korea fired ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, accelerating its missile launches amid Iran war tensions and talk of possible meetings with the U.S. and South Korea. Pyongyang’s intense missile activity - this was the fourth such launch this month and the seventh of the year - is meant to display its self-defence capabilities while gaining international leverage, some experts said.
“The missile launches may be a way of showing that - unlike Iran - we have self-defence capabilities,” said South Korean former presidential security adviser Kim Ki-jung.
