North Korean Provocation Expected on Kim Il-sung’s April 15th Birthday

It really is only a question of how big of a provocation the North Koreans are prepared to launch later this week:

North Korea has ignored U.S. offers for talks and may be preparing a nuclear test to celebrate the birth of the nation’s founder, according to the U.S. State Department.

Pyongyang could test a nuclear weapon April 15, when the North will mark the 110th birthday of late leader Kim Il Sung, the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Sung Kim, told reporters Wednesday.

“I don’t want to speculate too much, but I think it could be another missile launch. It could be a nuclear test,” he said, according to a Thursday report by The Korea Times.

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