Asia-Pacific / North Korea · Conflict & Security

North Korea fires ballistic missile amid tensions

Rank
Ran: 28h
Updated: 44h ago
Final
Outlets: 84
Regions: 5
Countries: 50
Languages: 27

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Yonhap, 2 Oct, 21:42 UTC.
Second country: Japan, with TBS News Dig.
Second region: Europe, with Deutsche Welle.
Fastest hour: +13 outlets from 2 Oct, 23:34 UTC.
Last article: 84 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 50 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

35%38%13%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 2%
Americas 9 outlets · 6 countries · 11%
Asia-Pacific 29 outlets · 16 countries · 35%
Europe 32 outlets · 17 countries · 38%
Middle East 11 outlets · 8 countries · 13%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

Yonhap 2 Oct, 21:42 UTC
The Korea Herald +7m
TBS News Dig +8m
The Japan Times +14m
Chosun Ilbo +20m

Last to join

The Jerusalem Post 4 Oct, 00:20 UTC
Taipei Times 4 Oct, 00:00 UTC
Politis 3 Oct, 16:22 UTC
Index 3 Oct, 16:09 UTC
ORF 3 Oct, 14:31 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 84 outlets in 50 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 84 outlets, 9 state-owned, 6 public-service, 69 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Nigeria, Senegal. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 16: Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 17: Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 8: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Yonhap, 2 Oct 2026, 21:42 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 21:50 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 02:06 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, North Korea. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

2 Oct 2026 74 12.46 11 9 11 9 4.0

3 Oct 2026 12 40.10 82 49 70 43 4.0

4 Oct 2026 135 4.19 84 50 3 3 4.1

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 2 Oct, 21:50 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 02:06 UTC

Covered by 84 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

Vanguard Nigeria 3 Oct, 07:46 UTC
North Korea fires ballistic missile after Seoul’s apology demand
Seneweb Senegal 3 Oct, 00:34 UTC
Séoul accuse la Corée du Nord d’avoir lancé au moins un missile balistique

Americas 9 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	74	12.46	11	9	11	9	4.0
3 Oct 2026	12	40.10	82	49	70	43	4.0
4 Oct 2026	135	4.19	84	50	3	3	4.1

Covered by 84 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 9 outlets

Asia-Pacific 29 outlets

Europe 32 outlets

Middle East 11 outlets

International 1 outlet