- The United States, South Korea and Japan are closely monitoring North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site as US Vice President Kamala Harris visits Seoul this week.
- North Korea has carried out over 30 missile tests in 2022 and US officials are warning that Pyongyang could use Harris’s visit as an opportunity to carry out a seventh nuclear test, and the first since 2017.
- During a visit to South Korea by US President Joe Biden in May, intelligence officials warned that North Korea was “preparing” for a nuclear test during the visit.
North Korea nuclear threat looms over Kamala Harris’s visit to Asia 27.09.2022
