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North Korea preparing for underground nuclear test

Dated 19/8/2006


According to Reuters North Korea may be preparing for an underground nuclear test. US Intelligence have been quoted as saying they have observed suspicious vehicle movement at a suspected nuclear site.

The activity included the unloading of large reels of cable outside P'unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea.

North Korea, though, believed to have enough nuclear material to build as many as a dozen nuclear bombs, has never tested one. A successful test would remove any doubt that North Korea is a nuclear power.

Earlier this year, symbolically on the 4th of July, the Day of American Independence, North Korea conducted seven ballistic missile tests, which provoked immediate international condemnation.
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