North Korea as a supporter of Russia: Kim Jong-un has his missiles tested in Ukraine. North Korea supplies Russia with weapons and ammunition in the Ukraine war.

This allows the communist country to test its weapons there and improve them. USA wants to deploy missiles to the Pacific The USA is therefore drawing conclusions and wants to station medium-range missile systems in the Indo-Pacific region in the future. Such a move could draw the ire of China, which warned in 2019 that US allies in the region risked countermeasures.