North Korea stayed silent Friday on Thursday’s barrage of more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, marking the third straight time it has skipped the usual state-media report. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles flew about 300 km, and further analysis was ongoing. The launches came amid the South Korea-U.S. military exercise that Pyongyang has denounced as war rehearsals, and after Trump moved to reopen a diplomatic channel with Kim Jong-un.
People watch news on North Korea's ballistic missile launch at Seoul Station in central Seoul, Thursday. Yonhap
North Korea stayed silent Friday on the ballistic missiles it launched the previous day, marking the third straight time Pyongyang has departed from its usual practice of announcing such launches the following morning.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and the Rodong Sinmun, the most widely read newspaper in the country, had made no mention of the launch as of 6:30 a.m.
Such silence, however, is not without precedent. North Korea has occasionally kept launches out of its state media when they offered little propaganda value.
