Pentagon enhancing intelligence gathering and missile defense readiness in the region after Kim Jong Un regime tests components for a huge new missile.
Highlights
- U.S.
- intelligence agencies believe North Korea is testing components of its gigantic “Hwasong-17” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) The new weapon was rolled out in a military parade in 2020, but as far as anyone knows, it has never been fired.
- If the missile works the way it has been designed to, it could potentially reach anywhere in the continental United States.
- A senior Biden administration official said Thursday that the February 26 and March 4 missile tests represented a “serious escalation” by North Korea.
- South Korean media cited officials in Seoul as saying tunnels blown up at Punggye-Ri appeared to be under repair.