Military Launches Emergency Response Team for N. Korean Tests

​Military authorities have launched an emergency response team amid speculation that a nuclear test by North Korea is imminent.

According to multiple military sources on Tuesday, the military began operating a risk management task force led by the defense ministry's North Korea policy officer from Monday.

The task force, which includes key officials from the defense ministry and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will take up the role of devising quick responses to the North’s missile and nuclear tests.

Military and intelligence authorities have publicly speculated that the North is highly likely to conduct a seventh nuclear test in the near future, coinciding with the inauguration of a new president.

Last week, North Korea fired a ballistic missile, presumed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, as well as a submarine-launched ballistic missile from an underwater submarine.