Satellite Photos Show Construction Work at North Korean Nuclear Test Site

GIKorea | March 9, 2022 | North Korea | 2 Comments

The North Koreans have already restarted their ICBM testing, so it only makes sense that they will restart nuclear testing as well to further pressure the Biden administration and whoever the new incoming Korean President is:

Analysis of satellite images of the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site in North Korea's North Hamgyong Province suggests the North has renewed construction work at the location, almost four years after its well-publicized demolition. [ARMS CONTROL WONK] — Analysis of satellite images of the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site in North Korea’s North Hamgyong Province suggests the North has renewed construction work at the location, almost four years after its well-publicized demolition. [ARMS CONTROL WONK]

Satellite images show renewed construction activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, almost four years after North Korea demolished most of its facilities at the location before world media in 2018, according to a U.S. think tank on Monday.

The California-based James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies said it analyzed satellite images of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Hamgyong Province and found construction of new buildings and repairs of existing buildings.

The center told Voice of America (VOA) that changes in the site documented through satellite images taken by Maxa Technology on Feb. 18 and March 4 allowed it to determine that renewed construction activity had taken place.

In particular, a vacant lot of land photographed on Feb. 18 had been filled with construction materials by March 4, suggesting the existence of ongoing work at Punggye-ri.
Joong Ang Ilbo

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