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Chaewon Chung
Chaewon Chung is a Seoul correspondent at NK News. Before joining NK News, she covered disinformation and technology with a focus on the Korean Peninsula at Coda Story.
North Korea launched its previously tested Hwasong-15 long-range missile last week, not the newer, larger Hwasong-17 as Pyongyang claims, South Korea’s defense ministry has assessed.
The findings, detailed in a report to South Korean lawmakers on Tuesday, further back up NK Pro analysis and media reports that the DPRK misrepresented the nature of its test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on March 24.