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Proof: N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea amid tensions over DMZ blast

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T00:10:21Z","headline":"N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea amid tensions over DMZ blast","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"koreatimes","url":"https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/northkorea/20261003/n-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-toward-east-sea-amid-tensions-over-dmz-blast","v":1}

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58e4be7bdc6b1447851d7e85c5b07460827c6f027be0397a5b6e06f41aff22ad

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969650, mined 2026-10-03 00:20 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-58e4be7bdc6b.json prints 58e4be7bdc6b1447851d7e85c5b07460827c6f027be0397a5b6e06f41aff22ad. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-58e4be7bdc6b.json and headline-58e4be7bdc6b.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-58e4be7bdc6b.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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