North Korea holds ‘Satellite’ Test as South’s election nears

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on March 5, 2022, after North Korea fired at least one "unidentified projectile" in the country's ninth suspected weapons test this year. - AFP

SEOUL (Bloomberg): North Korea said it conducted another reconnaissance satellite test, launching its second rocket with ballistic missile capability in less than a week as global attention focuses on the Ukraine crisis and South Korea prepares for elections.

North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration and the Academy of Defence Science conducted an "important test on Saturday (March 5) under the plan of developing a reconnaissance satellite,” its official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday.