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Purveyor

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Wed Feb 20, 2013, 08:01 PM Feb 2013

Photos Show North Korea Has Resumed Activity At Nuclear Site

By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 17:52 EST

North Korea has resumed activity at a nuclear site following its internationally condemned bomb test, a US think tank said Wednesday, amid fears that the regime will carry out more explosions.

Examining satellite photos, the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University detected a rise in traffic at the Punggye-ri site but cautioned that there was not enough evidence to assert that a new test was in the works.

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North Korea is believed to have tightly sealed the site, making it difficult for the United States and other nations to detect from the air whether Pyongyang used uranium — which would prove it has a second nuclear method in addition to its plutonium program.

But the analysts found activity in two different parts of the site. They said that if North Korea detonated the bomb in a tunnel in the northern area, “then the southern tunnel would be readily available for a fourth test.”

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Photos Show North Korea Has Resumed Activity At Nuclear Site (Original Post) Purveyor Feb 2013 OP
Because playing Nuclear Pariah is so much more important than feeding your people slackmaster Feb 2013 #1
Yeah, those 'sanctions' we have imposed on them have really paid off, indeed. /sarcasm off Purveyor Feb 2013 #2
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