It’s barely two months into 2024 and the year has already been marked by provocative missile tests from North Korea and anxious, rigid condemnation from its southern neighbor.
Pyongyang has been walking a path of increasingly truculent rhetoric, not just against Seoul but South Korea’s ally, the U.S., and a Japan deeply concerned for its own national security.
But the steady stream of inflammatory statements released by North Korea’s state media have come hand-in-hand with a flurry of ballistic missile tests, putting numerous countries on edge. Both Korean
