(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, MAY 19 - "North Korea could carry out another missile or nuclear test both before or after Biden's visit to the region".
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said this in a briefing at the White House.
The American president will leave tomorrow for a tour of several days that will take him to South Korea and Japan.
"It would not be abnormal for North Korea to launch a missile or conduct a nuclear test at some point in the short period, as signals related to such provocations have been detected and Pyongyang has almost completed its preparations," said Democrat Kim Byung-kee, quoted from Yonhap.
Just yesterday, Kim Tae-hyo, number two of President Yoon Suk-yeol's National Security Bureau, explained to the media in a briefing dedicated to Biden's arrival that the possibility of a nuclear test by the weekend was "relatively low, but the preparations for an ICBM launch appear to be imminent. "
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