Photos taken by satellite and analyzed by a specialized portal have revealed activity in another set of underground galleries of the nuclear test center of North Korea, where, according to experts, everything has been prepared for weeks to carry out a new atomic test. Images taken on June 14 show “new construction activities in tunnel number 4 (also known as the west portal), which strongly points to the desire to re-enable it for possible future tests,” explains the article published on the web. Beyond Parallel and signed by Joseph S. Bermudez, Victor Cha and Jennifer Jun.
“You can see a new foundation wall under construction and building materials near the portal entrancewhich was collapsed during the dismantling of 2018″, explains the text, which refers to the collapse of the entrances of these tunnels that the regime executed to improve the environment in the face of the summits held with Washington.
At the same time, “old warehouses and support buildings are still undergoing renovationand several new buildings are being built, an indicator of the new rehabilitation of the facilities linked to tunnel 4″, he adds.
These findings seem to point to North Korean authorities they would be enabling tunnel 4 to carry out future tests once the one they have been preparing for months in nearby tunnel 3 (also called the south portal) is executed and that Seoul and Washington consider that it may be imminent.
Beyond Parallel analysts state once again that “the renovation and preparation work on tunnel number 3, which began approximately four months ago, is now apparently complete for a seventh nuclear test” and insist again that the time to run the test “it is now solely in the hands of Kim Jong-un.”
Just yesterday a spokesman for the South Korean Unification Ministry (in charge of relations with the North) indicated that “North Korea is currently prepared to carry out a nuclear test at any time whenever leader Kim Jong-un so decides.”
North Korea, which has been isolated by the pandemic since 2020, has ignored offers to resume the stalled dialogue and last year approved a weapons modernization plan that is behind the record number of missile launches it has made in 2022 (19). and preparations for what would be its seventh nuclear test, the first in five years.
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