Satellite photos show preparations for new North Korea nuclear test

The Punggye-ri site lies in the country’s northeast, and the analysis says the
images show various activities there since March. The latest photo shows a
train of mining carts, which are believed to be used to carry material
excavated from within the test site.

The size of the spoil pile appears unchanged in the latest image, and it is
unclear whether the test device has been placed in the chamber and the shaft
sealed with other material for the final preparation stage before a
detonation, the website said.

North Korea’s longtime ruler Kim Jong Il died in December and was succeeded by
his youngest son, Kim Jong Un. The North has stepped up its tough rhetoric
against rival South Korea and the United States since the failed rocket test
that blemished its commemorations of the centennial of the birth of the
nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung.

On Wednesday, a top military chief in Pyongyang said the North is armed with “powerful
modern weapons” capable of defeating the US – a claim questioned by
experts.

Washington worries about the possibility that North Korea might develop a
reliable intercontinental ballistic missile and wed it with a nuclear bomb.
Outside experts say the North has enough plutonium for about four to eight “simple”
bombs, but does not yet appear to have the ability to make bombs small
enough to mount on a missile.

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