North Korea Fires Missiles as U.S. Weapons Shift Toward the Middle East: Is Asia Watching a Second-Front Stress Test?
North Korea has fired missiles while Washington's Middle East war pulls attention, assets and political bandwidth away from Asia.
When North Korea launches missiles during a U.S. crisis elsewhere, analysts immediately ask the same question: signal or coincidence?
The latest launches came as Washington and Seoul were conducting joint military exercises and as debate intensified over whether U.S. missile-defense assets and broader military attention could be pulled toward the Middle East.