North Korea's Winter Training Means Fewer Missile Launches
- Tuesday marks 60 days since Pyongyang’s last rocket firing
- Only five of 85 launches have taken place in fourth quarter
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North Korea hasn’t fired a missile for 60 days, but that may have more to do with its own winter training cycle than with Pyongyang easing off on provocations.
Since Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011, only five of the isolated nation’s 85 rocket launches have taken place in the October-December quarter, according to The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ North Korea Missile Test Database.