左は１０月２７日撮影の地下核実験場全景。右上は撮影日時は異なるものの、（１）の施設で車や資材の移動、坑道を掘ったがれきが確認されている。（２）は実験場南側で、新たに掘られた石や土は３０００平方㍍に達した。（３）北側の２カ所でも坑道を掘った跡が見つかった（デジタルグローブ提供、ジェーンズ分析）
Posted on 11/16/2010 7:05:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea Possibly Preparing for 3rd Nuclear Test
It is being reported that North Korea is possibly preparing for another nuclear test.
According to Japan's Sankei Shimbun on Wednesday IHS Jane's, a British open-source intelligence provider to militaries, said that there is a high possibility that the communist state is preparing for its third nuclear test after analyzing satellite imagery.
IHS Jane's has confirmed that Pyeongyang is excavating a tunnel near the area where it conducted its second nuclear test in May of last year and that it has detected active movements of vehicles around the site. The paper also pointed out that the same movements were made last year right before North Korea's second nuclear test.
And an IHS Jane's expert says there is highly possible that the nuclear test will be conducted within six months.
NOV 17, 2010
It’s not dirt its earth
左は１０月２７日撮影の地下核実験場全景。右上は撮影日時は異なるものの、（１）の施設で車や資材の移動、坑道を掘ったがれきが確認されている。（２）は実験場南側で、新たに掘られた石や土は３０００平方㍍に達した。（３）北側の２カ所でも坑道を掘った跡が見つかった（デジタルグローブ提供、ジェーンズ分析）
Thanks so very much for your “on the ground” reports. I do appreciate them. You are so far ahead of our MSM.
Wasn’t their other tests marginal, or questionable as to whether they were in fact Nuclear weapons?
Maybe they found more C4 to throw down the hole this time around....
when were the first two ?
Dirts????
Opressed nation standing up for itself against the tyranny of the globally rich, or evil soulessness hard at work testing the resolve of the responsible?
How will the United States of America weigh in?
The world watches.
If you give them time, they will make it work.
In North Korea, it’s dirt.
Moving dirts.....
Dirt is a non count noun.
Not that it matters, but as a trained linguist , I am betting that Engish is your second language.
Thanks for your advanced reporting, your linguistics make your report all the more genuine.
They can't quite get their uranium above 90%...95% being better.
However, it would the the dirtiest of all warheads...with an air-burst they would contaminate 100's of square miles.
They're in the same family as Rockes...
Well China waits on the border for them to fall...they’ll come in like a flood I would expect.The US likely will do little to stop them ...China has us by the ?....they just bought more of our debt...yet again. Makes one go hummmm in this happening right after Bos trip to the east.
I would think China appreciates the satellite, proxy nature of having an “ally” they can simply prod, yet deny absolute influence over. To have them fail completely would require them to artificially prop them up to continue more of the same, but complicate things regarding revealing more of their influence.
It’s like having a mean, neglected dog just outside your fence - the dog knows which way to direct its aggression without antagonizing it’s benefactor.
Correct. But how long N.Korea can hold their citizens in check is becoming a problem for them. Information is getting in which at one time would have been close to impossible. Though the fear factor of their leadership keeps them bound, hunger has a way of affecting people to the extremes and they are once again heading that direction.
I suspect China and the UN will come in after several million have died, this time around, and “Prop” them up again. But I often do wonder if they aren’t delibertly allowing people to die...the less resistance should China decide to upsurp the leadership.
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