The three-year anniversary of North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test came and went on Sunday without a peep from DPRK state media, breaking a broader 2020 trend of openly commemorating the country’s landmark nuclear weapons developments.

Experts say that state media’s silence over the Nov. 29, 2017 Hwasong-15 ICBM launch is a potential sign that Pyongyang is demuring as it keeps a watchful eye on President-elect Joe Biden.

“Pyongyang appears to be in wait-and-see mode concerning the Biden administration,” Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told NK News. “They’re