South Korean Prime Minister Says North Korea Ready to Conduct a Nuclear Test at Any Time
It seems like North Korea has been ready to do a nuclear test for a few months. However, it appears they are waiting for the right moment to justify them conducting the nuclear test to mitigate international condemnation. The fact that the ROK has not unilaterally cancelled the Inter-Korean military agreement despite all the provocations in recent months has denied them one of their justifications for the nuclear test:
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has said North Korea is ready to conduct a nuclear bomb test, but South Korea and its allies have always been prepared for the North’s major provocation.
“We gather that they are ready,” Han told Britain’s Sky News in an interview, “although we do not know exactly when” a nuclear test would happen.
North Korea has launched a flurry of short- to long-range missile tests so far this year and has widely been expected to carry out what would be its seventh nuclear test.
Han said South Korea and its allies have been on alert over the possibility of North Korea’s nuclear test.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, the Kim regime will eventually find something to justify their test. The real question is what does the U.S. and the ROK do in response?
The US will do nothing Winnie Xi has not already directed SpongeBrain Puddingpants’ handlers to do.
Of course, that might not be what Kim Jong Un expects. If Pyongyang Fats has been irritating Beijing, it might be a “kinetic” response.
Me? I want them all to “stand down” for Christmas and New Year; but I gather communists don’t really like folks worshipping anything but The State. So we’ll just need to wait and see.
Why get excited if nK wants to nuke itself? We didn’t stop them getting the capability and now after the fact we want to stop them. Seems like a failed strategy. Just ignore them.
I am with Flyingsword on this one.
Let them explode their nuke and don’t react to it.
The DPRK seem to enjoy and are feeding off the reactions of the ROK and the USA.
Maybe not caring or reacting, will give them food for thought.
Of course the risk to the above is that the DPRK may decide to up the ante and decide to bomb a South Korean village to make a point.
Maybe a new approach is called for?