North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Amid Russia-Ukraine Conflict

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 27, 2022, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" according to the South's military. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images

North Korea fired an alleged ballistic missile on Sunday morning, according to South Korean and Japanese military officials.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed to Yonhap that North Korea fired a suspected missile toward the sea from its east coast near Sunan, where the isolated, communist regime’s airport is located.