• South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday didn’t immediately say how far the weapon flew.
• The launch was North Korea’s 18th round of missile launches in 2022 alone.
• South Korean and U.S. officials say there are also signs that North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test.

South Korea’s tactical says North Korea has test-launches something like one unidentified long-range rocket toward the ocean, expanding a provocative streak in weapons shows this year that the U.S. what’s more, South Korean authorities say might come full circle with an atomic test blast.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday didn’t quickly express the way that far the weapon launches.

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The send-off was North Korea’s eighteenth round of rocket dispatches in 2022 alone a streak that has incorporated the country’s most memorable exhibits of intercontinental long range rockets in almost five years as pioneer Kim Jong.

Un pushes brinkmanship pointed toward establishing the North’s status as an atomic power and arranging financial and security concessions from a place of solidarity.

South Korean and U.S. authorities say there are likewise signs that North Korea is squeezing ahead with arrangements at its atomic proving ground in the northeastern town of Punggye-ri for its most memorable atomic test since September 2017.