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People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on January 14, 2025. North Korea launched several suspected short-range ballistic missiles on January 14, South Korea's military said, a week after Pyongyang reported firing a new hypersonic missile system. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP)

This picture taken on October 7, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on October 8, 2024 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting Kim Jong Un University of National Defence for its 60th founding anniversary in Pyongyang. (File photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

This picture taken on December 26, 2023 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 27 shows the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the office building of the WPK Central Committee in Pyongyang. - Photo by AFP

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This picture taken on July 26, 2023 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 27 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (front R) visiting the weaponry exhibition house with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and members of the military delegation in Pyongyang. - Photo by AFP

This picture taken on February 18, 2023 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 19, 2023 shows test-firing of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Hwasong-15", at Pyongyang International Airport. -Pix from philstar

TOPSHOT - This handout photo taken on May 31, 2023 and provided by South Korean Defence Ministry in Seoul shows an object presumed to be part of North Korea's claimed 'Space Launch Vehicle' being salvaged by South Korea's miliaty in waters 200km (124 miles) west of Eocheong Island in the Yellow Sea. South Korea's military said on May 31, it had located and was salvaging a suspected part of a North Korean spy satellite that crashed into the sea shortly after launch due to a rocket failure. (Photo by Handout / South Korean Defence Ministry / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / South Korean Defence Ministry" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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Leader Kim Jong Un ordered the "sudden launching drill" at 8 am Saturday (2300 GMT) and a Hwasong-15 missile -- a weapon first tested by the North in 2017 -- was fired from Pyongyang airport that afternoon, the official KCNA reported. - AFP pic

A missile launch in North Korea earlier this year. (Source: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service)