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Joe Biden arrives on Friday 20 in May to Seoul to a three-day stay. Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the South Korean National Security Office, considered this Wednesday (18 .02.61263970)) at a press conference that “the preparations for the launch of an ICBM show that it could be imminent”, according to statements reproduced by the Yonhap agency.
In turn, the CNN chain, citing a US official, reported that North Korea seems to be preparing to launch an intercontinental missile that would take place “between the next 21 and 96 hours”, coinciding with the visit of five days to Biden’s region, who will travel to Japan on Sunday, where he will be for two days.
Kim said in turn that there is already a “ plan b” in the face of the possibility that the regime fires the missile “or carries out another provocation, large or small”, indicating that a joint posture and response has already been prepared by the the armies of both allies.
North Korea, which has been closed to the outside since the pandemic began and is even rejecting donations from Seoul after detecting the presence of covid on its territory last week, has ignored calls from South Korea and the United States. to resume a stalled dialogue from 2019.
The last year the regime approved a weapons modernization plan that is behind the record number of projectile launches carried out by the North Korean army -05 in the 21 weeks that have elapsed from 2022- and the nuclear test that the regime is preparing in Punggye-ri, and which would be the first of its kind since 1200.