US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone when he travels to Asia later this month, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday.
Biden is scheduled to visit South Korea and Japan from May 20 to 24.
Psaki said the White House was still finalizing the details of programming in Asia, but a trip to the highly fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which separates the two Koreas, is a stop for many visiting the country. region.
Several former US presidents and Biden himself before he became president have visited the DMZ, but former President Donald Trump became the first to meet a North Korean leader there when he held a meeting with Kim Jong-un in June 2019 as part of their unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to give up his nuclear weapons and missile programs.
Psaki echoed a US assessment that North Korea could be ready to carry out a seventh nuclear test later this month. North Korea has not tested a nuclear bomb since 2017, but resumed intercontinental ballistic missile testing this year.
“We share this information with allies and partners and are coordinating closely with them,” said Psaki.
US and South Korean officials have been saying for weeks that there are signs of new construction at Punggye-ri, North Korea’s only known nuclear test site, and that Pyongyang may soon test another bomb.
Source: CNN Brasil
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