Is North Korea Planning a Nuclear Test Next?

It seems logical that the Kim regime’s playbook would eventually have them build up to a nuclear test:

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, center, speaks during a meeting with members of the National Security Council Standing Committee at the presidential office in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on Sunday morning, shortly after North Korea fired eight ballistic missiles into the East Sea. [YONHAP]
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, center, speaks during a meeting with members of the National Security Council Standing Committee at the presidential office in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on Sunday morning, shortly after North Korea fired eight ballistic missiles into the East Sea. [YONHAP]

South Korea’s National Security Council (NSC) strongly condemned the North’s latest missile launches Sunday, saying Pyongyang will “gain nothing” from its continued saber-rattling.  
   
The remarks came shortly after the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North fired eight short-range ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast. (……)

The latest missiles also came a day after Seoul and Washington completed a three-day combined naval exercise involving the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. The exercise was held in international waters off the Japanese island of Okinawa. 

The looming question among military experts is when the regime will carry out a nuclear test.  
   
South Korean officials have for weeks floated the possibility of an imminent nuclear experiment, which would be the seventh of its kind if North Korea follows through. Officials in Seoul and Washington have mentioned recent satellite images of ongoing tunnel excavation and construction work at Punggye-ri as signs that the regime is preparing for another test.  
   
The Punggye-ri test site, located in a mountainous region in the country’s remote North Hamgyong Province, is the North’s only known nuclear test site and the location of six nuclear weapons tests between October 2006 and September 2017. 

Joong Ang Ilbo

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setnaffa
setnaffa
3 years ago

Anything to take the attention off Joe Biden trying to drop tariffs from China…

Which will again apur manufacturing to move overseas and also provide more support to Russia against Ukraine…

Besides, what’s a few million human rights abuses between friends…

Biden appears to have a lot up his sleeve…

Korean Person
Korean Person
3 years ago

As you do too setnaffa.

Tell us.

When do you plan to fire the first shots of the Second American Civil War?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
3 years ago

Korea Person, you keep talking about the Second American Civil War like it is a bad thing.

On one side, you have those who put America last, want to loot a business rather than start one, chase the insanity of the day (all of which is based on some form of fraud/waste/abuse), and believe in living out their mental illnesses though children (from normal groomer-grade sexualization to insisting they are transgender).

On the other side, you have people who don’t believe in gun control.

A civil war would be disruptive… but America might emerge much stronger after purging the toxic, self-destructive, and un-American demographics.

So to answer your question…

…hopefully soon.

Korean Person
Korean Person
3 years ago

A civil war would be disruptive… but America might emerge much stronger after purging the toxic, self-destructive, and un-American demographics.

Or America can emerge as two nations. One the United States of America consisting of the Blue States and the neo Confederate States of America conisisting of the Red States.

And I wonder which country the neo Confederate States of America will align with considering that its extreme right wing policies might not sit well with a lot of countries of the world.

Russia and China perhaps?

Korean Man
Korean Man
3 years ago

Chickenhead, I agree. America should break up Apple and Tesla and put those leaders in jail. They are one of the many greedy American companies helping the Chinese government in return for short term profits.

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