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N. Korea prepping for nuclear test: intelligence official
Yonhap News ^ | 04/08/12

Posted on 04/08/2012 12:18:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

N. Korea prepping for nuclear test: intelligence official

SEOUL, April 8 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is believed to be gearing up for a nuclear test, an intelligence official said Sunday, a move certain to fuel the already high tensions over its planned long-range rocket launch.

Satellite images show the communist nation digging a new tunnel underground in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country's northeast, where it conducted two previous nuclear tests, first in 2006 and then in 2009.

The construction is believed to be in its final stage, the official said.

"North Korea is making clandestine preparations for a third nuclear test at Punggye-ri in North Hamkyong Province, where it conducted two nuclear tests in the past," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Commercial satellite imagery showed piles of earth and sand at the entrance of a tunnel in the Punggye-ri site. The soil is believed to have been brought to the site to plug the tunnel, one of final steps before carrying out a nuclear test blast.

A nuclear test following a long-range missile test fits the pattern of North Korean behavior.

In 2006, the provocative regime carried out its first-ever nuclear test, three months after the test-firing of its long-range Taepodong-2 rocket. The second nuclear test in 2009 came just one month after a long-range rocket launch.

The North says it will fire off its Unha-3 long-range rocket between April 12-16 to put what it claims is a satellite into orbit. But regional powers believe the launch is a pretext to disguise a ballistic missile test banned under a U.N. Security Council resolution.

Sources said the North is believed to have put the rocket on a launch pad in the country's northwest on Friday.

The North's nuclear and missile programs have long been a regional security concern. The country is believed to have advanced ballistic missile technology, though it is still not clear whether it has mastered the technology to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; nucleartest
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I dunno. You’d probably have to ask the families of the deceased crew members of the Cheonan (ROK Navy).


21 posted on 04/08/2012 7:26:46 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (NO time for malaise/lethargy on FR! Fact is, FREEPERS UNITED CAN help stop Mitt's nomination effort)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hey Tiger are these toys that Chia Pet left to son JR before he croak I THINK SO


22 posted on 04/08/2012 9:29:24 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: U-238; TigerLikesRooster

Oh it might fly, but it ain’t reaching orbit. I doubt its got that capability. I think the “satellite” is nothing but a very bad smokescreen.


23 posted on 04/08/2012 10:30:37 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
If they do test another nuclear weapon, will it use Plutonium or Uranium? North Korea appears to be ahead of Iran when it comes to Uranium enrichment.
24 posted on 04/08/2012 12:54:49 PM PDT by Aglooka ("I was out numbered 5-to-1, I got 4.")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Upon review the indisputable facts:

Agreed Framework Between The United States of America And The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
http://www.armscontrol.org/documents/af

North Korea gathers kit for nuclear bombs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550021/posts

Clinton Bankrolled North Korea's Nuke Program
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/770752/posts

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Then finally, like pulling teeth - Madeleine Albright and the democrats belated acknowledgment

FLASHBACK: Albright: North Korea 'Cheated' on Clinton Nuke Agreement
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716930/posts

25 posted on 04/08/2012 2:48:46 PM PDT by Mr Apple ( Go Santorum Go ! (or Newt) but no mitt)
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To: GeronL; AmericanInTokyo

The North Korean missile tests remind me of the early Atlas missile tests

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFNjL86y9c&feature=related


26 posted on 04/08/2012 3:15:00 PM PDT by U-238 (Time is like a river made up of events which happen,and its currents is strong;no sooner its swept)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; U-238
NK letter:

27 posted on 04/09/2012 1:37:48 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/5131/dprk-gdae-stationary


28 posted on 04/09/2012 1:38:51 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; gandalftb

Meanwhile, the launch of the U’nha-3 and Kwangmyo’ngso’ng-3 satellite may not be the only test carried out by the Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) Central Committee’s Machine-Building Industry Department and its subordinate organizations, the Second Economy Commission and Second Natural Sciences Academy. South Korean officials say that ongoing excavation and construction activities near P’unggye-ri, Kilchu County, North Hamgyo’ng Province suggest the DPRK may conduct a third underground nuclear detonation, likely HEU. Yonhap reports

http://nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/rocket-on-launch-pad/


29 posted on 04/09/2012 4:40:58 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; TigerLikesRooster; gandalftb

Two OT:
North Korea no longer relies on a single foreign telecom company to carry its Internet traffic to and from the rest of the world. A second route via Intelsat started appearing in BGP announcements from April 5 (around 6am local Pyongyang time).

Detected prefix: 175.45.176.0/24 , Announced by AS131279 (STAR-KP — Ryugyong-dong) Detected upstream/next hop AS: AS22351(INTELSAT Intelsat Global BGP Routing Policy)

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/08/dprk-gets-second-link-to-internet/

and Changes at Pyongyang Earth Station:

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/31/changes-at-pyongyang-earth-station/


30 posted on 04/09/2012 4:52:06 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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Here is the AS22351 INTELSAT Global BGP Routing Policy
http://www.robtex.com/as/as22351.html

But I do not see a link to AS22351 here: http://www.robtex.com/route/175.45.176.0-24.html

only to AS4837 China-Network-Communications-Group China Network Communications (CNC Group) http://www.robtex.com/as/as4837.html


31 posted on 04/09/2012 5:12:05 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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The Google advisory gives green light:

Diagnostic page for AS131279 (STAR)

What happened when Google visited sites hosted on this network?

Of the 3 site(s) we tested on this network over the past 90 days, none served content that resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.

The last time Google tested a site on this network was on 2012-03-22, and no suspicious content was found on this network within the past 90 days.

Has this network hosted sites acting as intermediaries for further malware distribution?

Over the past 90 days, this network has not hosted any sites that appeared to function as intermediaries for the infection of any other sites.

Has this network hosted sites that have distributed malware?

No, this network has not hosted any sites that have distributed malicious software over the past 90 days.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:131279


32 posted on 04/09/2012 5:24:12 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The propaganda ministry works as if KJI still is alive and they mix up the dates:

Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) — Leader Kim Jong Il was awarded Kim Il Sung Prize on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.

A decree on awarding the prize was released on Mar. 29 by the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK.

The SPA Presidium said in its decree that reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all the service personnel and people, it decided to confer the prize on Kim Jong Il who indicated the road for the Korean revolution and the times to follow with his encyclopedic ideas and theories and ushered in a shining heyday of building socialist culture in Songun Korea. -0-
http://www.kcna.kp/goHome.do?lang=eng

Kim Il-sung (15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) i.e. not March 29 nor April 9,


33 posted on 04/09/2012 5:34:18 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; gandalftb
NK control room:


NASA control Room:


source: http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1706509.html
34 posted on 04/09/2012 10:56:06 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
And in this case, the "NASA" will stand for:

NEVER

A

STRAIGHT

ANSWER

35 posted on 04/09/2012 11:06:09 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (NO time for malaise/lethargy on FR! Fact is, FREEPERS UNITED CAN help stop Mitt's nomination effort)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The “NASA” for the North, that is.


36 posted on 04/09/2012 11:06:58 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (NO time for malaise/lethargy on FR! Fact is, FREEPERS UNITED CAN help stop Mitt's nomination effort)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They’ll do their nuke test, launch their missile and that will be that. Obama will give them another boatload of cash and they’ll promise to be good. Life will resume as before.


37 posted on 04/09/2012 11:08:36 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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