North Korea’s first nuclear weapons test in five years is looming after diplomatic efforts fell to pieces, experts have warned.
The US is ‘preparing for all contingencies’, alongside South Korean and Japanese allies, as all eyes are on Kim Jong-un, who is expected to give the go-ahead for the test in the near future.
If it was given the green light, the nuclear test would be the nation’s seventh since 2006, and the first since September 2017 – when it claimed to have tried out a thermonuclear bomb to fit on its intercontinental ballistic missiles. Washington is prepared to make ‘both short and longer-term adjustments to our military posture as appropriate and responding to any DPRK provocation and as necessary to strengthen both defence and deterrence to protect our allies in the region’, he added.
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