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March 16, 2021 - US intelligence believes North Korea is preparing to carry out the first missile test since President Joe Biden took office, after weeks of silence over American attempts to make contact. 



This was reported by CNN, underlining that the information comes from "several US officials who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity".



US officials are on high alert, while the US and South Korea conduct small and simulated military exercises: US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are in Asia for meetings with their Japanese counterparts and South Korean.



The alarm was earlier raised by Air Force General Glen Vanherck, head of the Army's Northern Command, that Pyongyang could begin testing an improved version of its ICBMs "in the near future".



In a confidential testimony sent to the Senate Committee on Armed Forces, Vanherck said North Korea's "considerably larger and presumably more capable" ICBMs will further increase the threat to the US, but that he trusts in the defense system. American missile.



In recent hours, according to South Korean media, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Yo-jong, has accused the United States of "smelling gunpowder" with Washington's military exercise with South Korea. .



Kim Yo-jong threatened to cancel the agreement to ease tension between the two Koreas, signed in September 2018, and also dissolve an organization that deals with cross-border business.

North Korea has long been asking for no joint military exercises, considered a "Proof of Invasion".