HEAVY RAINS CAUSE NORTH KOREA TO HALT REOPENING THE TUNNEL AT THE NUCLEAR TEST SITE.
Washington-reporter reported on Monday that Due to the result of heavy rain, North Korea appears to have temporarily suspended operations to reactivate an inactive tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site.
According to commercial satellite images taken on August 24 and published online by the CSIS Korea Chair, which oversees the Beyond Parallel project, road construction to Tunnel No. 4 at North Korea's primary nuclear testing site in Punggye-ri in Kilju County of North Hamgyong Province remained suspended.
The reporter stated that Tunnel No 4-construction work had been seen closed, which is commonly known as the West Portal, In an aim to possibly reactivate it for nuclear testing.
According to the statement it states that Due to the cost of heavy rain water damage to the facility's only access road and the suspension of road construction to Tunnel No. 4.
The Chairperson of CSIS Korea raised the possibility that work being done beneath Tunnel No. 4's collapsed portal intends to increase North Korea's capacity for nuclear testing. It also reinforced the possibility that the Kim Jong-un leadership was attempting to mislead the world by building things that weren't necessary.
In Tunnel No 1 Pyongyang conducted its first nuclear test in October 2006 and In Tunnel No 2 conducted its subsequent five tests between May 2009 and September 2017.The final two tunnels, however, have not yet been used for any nuclear tests yet.
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