Pyongyang wants to carry out a nuclear missile test in the run-up to the US midterm elections, South Korea’s former top spy has claimed
Pyongyang will time its next nuclear missile test to come ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, Park Jie-won, the former head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), has claimed.
“They are going to do it in order to demonstrate a threat that [their] missile can fly to the US, carrying a miniaturized and lighter warhead, and to deal a blow to the Joe Biden administration ahead of the midterm election,” Park, who led the NIS between 2020 and May 2022, told KBS Radio on Monday.
Park added that “there will be some kind of North Korean provocations during the US-South Korea military exercises that start today.”
“Kim Jong-un is not going to overlook it as if nothing happened,” he said.
The US and South Korea kicked off the 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield field exercise on Monday. Pyongyang…