A string of provocations from North Korea -- including its most powerful ballistic missile test in years over the weekend -- could be designed to extract concessions from the United States ahead of potential negotiations, a senior US official suggested.
"Of course we're concerned," the official said of the latest round of launches from North Korea, which have unnerved US allies after a stretch of relative quiet.The Biden administration has long sought to restart diplomacy with Pyongyang, extending the invitation for talks without any preconditions.
The US official, speaking to reporters on Sunday, said North Korea has been following a pattern of testing its latest systems as a demonstration of its capabilities to the rest of the world. North Korea is looking to increase pressure and validate and refine its weapons systems, the official said."They have done a variety of systems that have tended to be shorter range systems up until now," the official said."They've claimed a hypersonic glide vehicle.
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