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| Satellite Spots Preparations for N.Korean Nuke Test | |
| 2014-05-07 | |
| A U.S. military satellite has detected "imminent signs" of a fresh North Korean nuclear test, CNN quoted a senior Defense Department official as saying Monday. The Pentagon official said the satellite last weekend photographed a tarpaulined tunnel entrance at a nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province. This could be an attempt to prevent the surveillance satellite from spying on the process of preparing for an underground nuclear test. The final preparatory stage of a nuclear test would be to fill up the tunnel entrance. The same day, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se met with EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton in New York. "If North Korea carries out a fresh nuclear test or fires mid-range missiles, the international community should slap strong sanctions on Pyongyang enough to put the kibosh on the issue," Yun said.
Seoul has stepped up 24-hour surveillance, believing that a fourth North Korean nuclear test is imminent. "We can't rule out that the North is bluffing," a government official said. "But it seems they’ve finished preparations for a nuclear test and are now just waiting for the regime to give the go-ahead." | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 You know we have deficiencies in the intelligence area when you can read "... tarpaulined tunnel entrance...could be an attempt to prevent the(There is only one? - UP)surveillance satellite from spying on the process of preparing for an underground nuclear test." |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-05-07 22:05 |
| #1 See also WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "REUTERS" MEDIA: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST COULD BECOME A NIGHTMARE FOR CHINA AS IT STEADILY LOSES CONTROL OF NORTHEAST ASIA TO STRENGTHENED US ALLIANCES, MISSLE DEFENSE, + REGIONAL MILITARIZATION. * E.G. GUAM PDN > US MOVIONG SURVEILLANCE PLANES [Drones = Global Hawks] FROM GUAM TO JAPAN. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ITS "CHIGUADAO" NOW, NO MORE "JOHNSON REEF" OR "JOHNSON ISLAND". Vietnam is protesting, US is investigating, but China is ignoring. China is allegedly not only exploring + drilling for resources, but also building artificial islands replete wid harbors + airfields. It repor demands that international shipping halt at its SCS border + wait for Chinese CG, PLAN escort through the SCS. * RELATED TOPIX > [SCMP} CHINESE MEDIAS [Xinhua] THREATENS [to give] VIETNAM WID "LESSON IT DESERVES" OVER OIL RIG ROW. * DEFENCE/P[K/FORUMS > [China Daily News] CHINA CLAIMS SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON JAPANESE MILITARY SATELLITE, DESTROYED CONTROL CHIP WID "SECRET WEAPON". * WAFF > [Strategypage] CHINA: READY TO FIGHT ANYONE, ANYWHERE, + ANYTIME AND WIN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-05-07 02:10 |