10/13/2022
Japan warns that North Korea has completed preparations for a nuclear test
Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada warned Thursday that North Korea may have already completed preparations for its seventh nuclear test, all while conducting a spate of test missile launches that began at the start of this year.
Hamada also said during a parliamentary session that Pyongyang’s weapons technology has developed “at a rapid pace,” acknowledging it has become “more difficult to intercept” missiles it launches.
He expressed wariness that Pyongyang might conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017 in the not-so-distant future, given the progress of repair work at the nation’s only known nuclear test site, in Punggye-ri in the nation’s northeast.
North Korea has repeatedly fired missiles, including a recent ballistic projectile that was the first to fly over the Japanese archipelago in five years. Pyongyang is banned from using ballistic technology and carrying out nuclear tests under U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Despite these developments, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said at the same parliamentary session that U.N. Security Council resolutions aimed at thwarting Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions “have been working effectively, given North Korea’s severe economic situation.”
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