The Diplomat

March 2020 was truly a remarkable month for North Korea in terms of its missile activity. Stated one way, March marked the busiest single month for missile launches in the country’s history. Most of the test missiles, however, were of short ranges, and not — at least as stated by North Korean state media — intended for an explicit nuclear role (North Korea calls most of these systems ”tactical” weapons).

To put it all in perspective, here are the launches — nine in total over four separate events.

First, on March 2, two KN25 close-range ballistic missiles were launched from Sangum-ri in Kangwon province. The launches marked the first since November 2019 and the first since North Korea had locked itself down amid concerns of the novel coronavirus disease epidemic that had begun in China, describing the disease as a threat to its “national survival.”

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