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Seoul: North Korea, pressing ahead with a rocket launch in defiance of a UN resolution, is also preparing a third nuclear weapons test, South Korean news reports said on Sunday, a move bound to scare neighbors and infuriate the West.
South Koreas Yonhap news agency quoted an unidentified intelligence source as saying North Korea was clandestinely preparing a nuclear test at the same location as the first two.
The source added that workers in the destitute North had been seen in commercial satellite images digging a tunnel in the northeastern town of Punggye-ri, Kilju County, in addition to existing mines believed to have been used for tests in 2006 and 2009.
We have confirmed the (mining) work is coming to its final stage, the source was quoted as saying.
The satellite imagery showed piles of earth and sand at the entrance of the tunnel, Yonhap said.
North Korea, which three years ago pulled out of sixparty disarmament talks on its nuclear programme, agreed in February to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches in return for food aid, opening the way to a resumption of the negotiations.
But that has all since unraveled with the Norths rocket launch planned for this month, probably between Thursday and the following Monday. REUTERS
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South Koreas Yonhap news agency quoted an unidentified intelligence source as saying North Korea was clandestinely preparing a nuclear test at the same location as the first two.
The source added that workers in the destitute North had been seen in commercial satellite images digging a tunnel in the northeastern town of Punggye-ri, Kilju County, in addition to existing mines believed to have been used for tests in 2006 and 2009.
We have confirmed the (mining) work is coming to its final stage, the source was quoted as saying.
The satellite imagery showed piles of earth and sand at the entrance of the tunnel, Yonhap said.
North Korea, which three years ago pulled out of sixparty disarmament talks on its nuclear programme, agreed in February to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches in return for food aid, opening the way to a resumption of the negotiations.
But that has all since unraveled with the Norths rocket launch planned for this month, probably between Thursday and the following Monday. REUTERS
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