Big News Network on NK 01/13/2018
WASHINGTON, U.S. - A Washington-based think tank, specializing in tracking the North Korean nuclear activities has recorded significant work at North Korea’s nuclear test site - forecasting that something big might be coming.
According to the think tank 38North, “significant tunneling” work has been detected at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
38North said that satellite images from December show increasing efforts to maintain the test site where North Korea has conducted the last six underground nuclear tests.
The report by the think tank run by Johns Hopkins University stated that
“Throughout December 2017, mining carts and personnel were consistently present around the West Portal and there was significant expansion of the spoil pile.”
It noted that there also appear to be new rails on top of the spoil pile.
Late in October, reports emerged that a tunnel at the nuclear site had crumbled, with analysts stating that this was likely because of the country's sixth and most powerful nuclear test in September.
Analysts also said that 200 people were potentially killed as the tunnel collapsed and the incident threw the site’s future in to question.
However, analysis of satellite images now suggests that although the North Portal of the site – where the last five nuclear tests were conducted – remains “dormant,” tunnel excavation in the West Portal has been “stepped up.”
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