North Korea Launches Seven Missiles on Eve of U.S. Election

North Korea fired seven short-range missiles off its coast on the eve of the United States election, Reuters reported on November 5.

The missiles reached altitudes of 62 miles with a range of approximately 250 miles before falling into the ocean just outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

These launches come less than a week after North Korea’s successful intercontinental ballistic missile test and on the heels of its high-profile condemnation of joint military exercises conducted by the U.S., South Korea and Japan.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, said the trilateral drills reinforced the “legitimacy and urgency of the line of strengthening nuclear forces that we have chosen and are implementing.”

At Putin’s command? These launches also came just one day after a meeting between North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Analysts believe Putin could have asked North Korea to ramp up its provocative behavior.

The bigger problem: North Korea remains a flashpoint of tension and instability. But as this meeting with Putin shows, it is only part of a much greater problem.

Bible prophecies in Ezekiel 38 and 39, Daniel 11 and Revelation 16 warn that a major military bloc will rise up in the East and make war on a massive scale. Though nations like North Korea will be part of the threat, the main players will be Russia and China. North Korea’s provocations are generally carried out at the behest, or at least with the permission, of Russia and China.

Learn more: Read “North Korea—Truly an Isolated State?”