Sung Kim “I’m ready to deal with whatever North Korea does… hope for restraint”
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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Sang-heon = US State Department special representative for North Korea Sung Kim said on the 6th (local time) that North Korea may launch additional provocations such as ballistic missile launches or nuclear tests on the occasion of North Korea’s Day of the Sun on the 15th (local time). He urged North Korea to refrain from provocations.
At a telephone briefing on the same day, Chairman Kim said, “I don’t want to make too many guesses, but it’s another missile It could be a launch or it could be a nuclear test.”
This was mentioned in the process of answering the question, but it is interpreted as implying that the US also has in mind that North Korea may conduct a nuclear test.
In fact, South Korea and the US authorities are watching the possibility of North Korea increasing the intensity of armed protests by launching additional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) or conducting nuclear tests on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.
“The important thing is that we are prepared to deal with whatever North Korea does through cooperation and coordination with our allies and partners,” Kim said.
“I want to emphasize that we clearly hope that they refrain from further provocations,” he added.
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