N. Korea Digging New Tunnels Where Nuclear Tests Are Possible(potential HEU site also located)

Munhwa Ilbo ^ | 09/28/06 | Kim Jong-tae

[TigerLikesRooster]

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N. Korea Digging New Tunnels Where Nuclear Tests Are Possible

5 Tunnels in the valley of Mu-myong Mountain... could also be missile bases

Kim Jong-tae

Intelligence agencies have learned that N. Korea is digging five new tunnels suspected to be a missile base in the valley of Mu-myong Mountain(2851 ft), Shi-jung County, Jagang Province, N. Korea. They are looking into it carefully.

In particular, they do not rule out the possibility that the tunnels could be used for nuclear test. Furthermore, they also received intelligence that there are uranium-enrichment facilities at Hwa-pyong County, Jagang Province, and now trying to verify it by examining satellite photos.

A high-level government official said on Sept. 28, "We came to the possession of intelligence that N. Korea has been constructing five tunnels in the valley of Mu-myong Mountain recently. We were able to verify the existence of five such tunnels. While it is quite likely that this is another missile base in the rear area, we should not rule out that it could be also an underground nuclear test site."

The intelligency outfits are now trying to find out any additional indication that storage facilities for rocket propellent are also under construction.

The source also said, "Some recent N. Korean defectors gave us information that uranium enrichment facilities are located at Hwa-pyong County, Jagang Province. We are trying to verify it from satellite images. Hwa-pyong County is a remote mountain area. Chances are high that they could construct sensitive installations there, requiring extra security."

Another government figure said, "N. Korea has high quality uranium mine. It turned out that Pakistan's Dr. Abdul Kadir Khan had provided N. Korea with centrifuge devices. N. Korea could be running uranium enrichment project. If such facilities exist, N. Korea would use it to boost their bargaining power during their negotiation with U.S."

Defense Ministry stated that N. Korea was suspected to be building uranium enrichment facilities in a classified report submitted last Sept. to S. Korea's legislature.

Currently, N. Korea officially denies the existence of uranium enrichment program. However, N. Korea has uranium mines producing good quality ore, and Dr. Khan provided N. Korean with 20 centrifuges, crucial devices for the enrichment process. S. Korea and U.S. intelligence are both paying keen attention to the facilities at Hwa-pyong County.

Especially, we should be reminded that the second N. Korean nuclear crisis was precipitated when N. Korea's Highly Enriched Uranium(HEU) Program was known to the world in late 2002. If the uranium enrichment facilities are to be confirmed, it will have serious repercussion.

Kim Jong-tae Yang Sung-wook

2006/09/28

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[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, it could be a missile base, but also a back-up site for their nuclear test.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[BykrBayb]

Is this coming from South Korean Intelligence? Do you know if the U.S. has released any of our own intelligence about this?

[TigerLikesRooster]

I think that much of it coming from U.S. or other countries. For some reason, even when the real source is U.S. intel, U.S. is the last to publish it. It has been this way even before pinkos took power here.

S. Korea and Japan talk about this kind of things first, followed by U.S..

This must be U.S. intel's way of letting the news out.

[BykrBayb]

Thank you. Is that a South Korean newspaper?

I saw aerial photos of this site not long ago, but can't seem to locate them now. Do you have a link to them?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for posting this.

[Pro-Bush]

I am sure our birds in the sky are focused on any major construction activity; terrestrial or sub-terrestrial.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #5

No, I have not seen satellite image, nor aware of links to such images. You may have to ask somebody else. Please post images if it can be allowed, after you located them.:)

Thanks in advance.

[bruinbirdman]

"Is this coming from South Korean Intelligence?"

"Another government figure said, "N. Korea has high quality uranium mine. . ."

Re don't got no stinkin' enlichment ploglam. Re mine prutonium.

yitbos

[Constantine XIII]

Thanks for the hard work, bro.

[BykrBayb]

I've been searching, and can't find the photos. I've come across a few satellite photos of other locations. I could be mistaken about the location of the photos I saw, but I think they were of Mu-myong Mountain. I'll look some more later, and hopefully find them.

[Iris7]

Thanks. Very interesting. Am impressed.

[marvlus]

I'd like to think they're tunneling under Kim Jong Il's residence.

[Mike Fieschko]

Tunnel Completed for Underground North Korea Nuke Test, 21 Sep 2006, links to Tunnels called ready for nuclear test, September 22, 2006 (one day ahead because of timezone differences, of course).

[sgtbono2002]

People are hungry and they piss away their money digging missile sites for an enemy that doesnt exist. Why would anyone attack N Korea? They have nothing anyone wants. The only reason anyone would attack is in self-defense, i they didnt have WMD there would be no need for that.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #14

I think that this is a new site, not the one reported about in the past articles.

[b4its2late]

Bunker buster time.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Or other versions of a decapitation strategy...

[groovejedi]

I'm wondering if I can look up this location on google maps?

[b4its2late]

Yes, yes, yes.