April 24, 2024
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North Korea’s launch of enormous missile attracts little US media attention

The war in Ukraine has overshadowed Pyongyang’s weapons tests, which an expert says could lead to future problems

North Korea’s latest test of a long-range ballistic missile — which Pyongyang claims to be its biggest ever — has received scant attention from American media, failing to even make the front pages of a dozen high-profile U.S. news websites amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Less than half of the top 20 U.S. news websites monitored by NK News mentioned the North Korean test of what it has called a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile on their front page on Friday. Of the eight sites that did mention the event, the majority buried the story low on the page.

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