Asia-Pacific / North Korea · Conflict & Security

North Korea conducts intermediate-range strategic missile drill

Rank
Ran: 30h
Updated: 28h ago
Final
Outlets: 27
Regions: 5
Countries: 19
Languages: 11

Yonhap South Korea · English 3 Oct, 10:13 UTC

The earliest of 13 English reports

Read it also in ไทย (3) · +9 languages

Read at Yonhap

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Yonhap, 3 Oct, 10:13 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Africa, with TimesLIVE.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 3 Oct, 23:29 UTC.
Last article: 27 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 19 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

48%22%15%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 8%
Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 7%
Asia-Pacific 13 outlets · 8 countries · 48%
Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 22%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 15%

First movers

Yonhap 3 Oct, 10:13 UTC
CNA +1h 36m
TimesLIVE +1h 41m
Interfax +1h 50m
TASS +2h 19m

Last to join

Unian 4 Oct, 17:34 UTC
The Express Tribune 4 Oct, 16:41 UTC
The Independent 4 Oct, 10:45 UTC
Hürriyet 4 Oct, 06:42 UTC
IRNA (fa) 4 Oct, 06:09 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 27 outlets in 19 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 27 outlets, 5 state-owned, 22 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Algeria, South Africa. Americas 2: United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 8: India, Japan, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 4: Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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, English, Spanish, Persian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Yonhap, 3 Oct 2026, 10:13 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 11:20 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 17:34 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: 0.05, 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

3 Oct 2026 45 16.41 17 11 17 11 4.0

4 Oct 2026 57 8.09 27 19 11 10 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 3 Oct, 11:20 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 17:34 UTC

Covered by 27 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
3 Oct 2026	45	16.41	17	11	17	11	4.0
4 Oct 2026	57	8.09	27	19	11	10	4.1

Covered by 27 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 13 outlets

Europe 6 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets