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su semiconductor plant. the other stop is japan. but as biden makes the rounds, there is also growing concern over what north korea might do next to rattle the saber. the united states preparing for the distinct possibility that kim jong-un would conduct a missile test, an icbm, in coordination with biden's trip. wouldn't be the first time he did it. more on that in a moment. let's begin in seoul, south korea, cnn's jeremy diamond is there. tell us what the biden administration hopes to accomplish on this trip, both in south korea and japan. >> reporter: well, jim, president biden ha...

>> the administration has said, or u.s. officials have said, it looks possible this will happen imminently. it was in the next 48 to 96 hours and now it looks like that window is very much open here. the u.s. has watched this test site to watch north korean activity as they prepare for what appears to be an upcoming intercontinental ballistic missile test. they have watched over the course of the past few months as a new icbm system was tested, first in late february, then in march, and again in may, and what may have been an explosion on the launchpad and now they're preparing for another tes...

US says North Korea testing new ICBM system

You've gotta be sure that you can do what you say you're going to do. all it's going to do is bring us closer to some kind of serious confrontation. >> general, do you share that concern? >> yeah, sure. senator mccain has been around for a long time. he's a very thoughtful man. like most of us who have seen a lot of combat, it's something we're going to try to avoid as the last resort. part of deterrance is to have a capable, modernized ability. we do have that. the north koreans don't have a functional icbm system. they will in five to ten years. the question is what do we do about it. in a s...

Nuclear arsenal is measurably different today than it was when trump came into office. hours after president trump warned pyongyang, north korea had already threatened the u.s. again, warning it would strike the u.s. mainland with a nuclear missile if there was any sign that the u.s. planned to attack the north. today the head of u.s. missile defenses expressed confidence that the u.s. could destroy an incoming north korean icbm. >> we currently believe that north korea's icbm system could meet today's threat. we have done the naltanalysis, built the system, and we've done the testing. >> u.s....