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Biden mulls North Korea game plan

PHNOM PENH: US President Joe Biden will seek ways to rein in Pyongyang after its barrage of missile tests in talks with South Korean and Japanese leaders Sunday, a day before a high-stakes encounter with China's Xi Jinping.

A record-breaking spate of launches by the North in recent weeks has sent fears soaring that the reclusive regime will soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.

LINGERING THREAT Television screens show a news report about Pyongyang’s latest missile launch, with file footage of a North Korean missile being paraded, at an electronics market in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Nov. 3, 2022. US President Joe Biden will seek ways to rein in Pyongyang after its barrage of missile tests in talks with South Korean and Japanese leaders on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, a day before a high-stakes encounter with China’s Xi Jinping. AFP PHOTO