North Korea conducts suspected missile test ahead of South Korean election

"North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said, continuing this
year’s record-breaking blitz of weapons tests with a launch just days before South Korea’s presidential election.

 From hypersonic to medium-range ballistic missiles, Pyongyang test-fired a string of weaponry in January and last week launched what it claimed was a component of a “reconnaissance satellite”—although Seoul described it as another ballistic missile." Frane24