US says Pyongyang may escalate recent provocations with a weapons test on 110th anniversary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth
Pyongyang is ignoring US overtures for talks and could be planning its first nuclear weapon test in nearly five years for its 15 April holiday, the state department’s top North Korea envoy.
Sung Kim, the special representative for North Korea Policy, said Washington thinks Pyongyang could be planning a big show of its growing nuclear weapons capacity on the annual holiday next week, which will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, who founded the modern Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
