North Korea Resumes Missile Tests With First Launch in a Month

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 27, 2022, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" according to the South's military. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images

SEOUL—North Korea fired what could have been a ballistic missile on Feb. 27, military officials in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first test since the nuclear-armed country conducted a record number of launches in January.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) reported that North Korea had fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast from a location near Sunan, where Pyongyang’s international airport is located.