{O/C} In yet another apparent show of force, North Korea has launched a ballistic missile as leader Kim Jong-un strives to protect the rogue state against rivals.
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This was the North's 14th time launching a weapon, six days before South Korea's new conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol takes the helm.
The missile was fired towards waters off its eastern coast, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, which termed the North's repeated missile launches provocations bound to undermine international peace and security as well as a flagrant breach of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The concatenation of tests represents the North's unremitting quest to wrest concessions from Washington amid a hiatus in denuclearisation talks, establishing its image as a nuclear state that would eventually send the United States lifting international economic sanctions on the state.
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