North Korea’s Kim Could Try to Upstage Biden Summit With Missile Launch
His country has been hit hard by COVID, but Kim Jong Un might still take time out to launch an ICBM while Joe Biden visits South Korea.
KCNA
South Korean officials say they are preparing a “plan B” in case Kim Jong Un tries to upstage a visit by President Joe Biden by testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. Biden is due to arrive in Seoul on Friday for talks with President Yoon Suk-yeol and a potential visit to the DMZ. Even though Kim’s country is suffering from a major outbreak of COVID-19, with at least a million people infected, South Korea says the North Korean dictator appears to be preparing a missile test imminently. “If there is a small or large North Korean provocation during the summit period, we have prepared Plan B,” said Kim Tae-hyo, South Korea’s deputy national security adviser. According to Reuters, the plan would involve securing combined U.S.-South Korean command and control systems and might mean a change of the summit schedule.
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