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Work under way at nuclear test site

NEW satellite imagery appears to show preparations under way at a North Korean nuclear test site.

Early this month South Korean intelligence reported the digging of a new tunnel at the Punggye-ri site, which it took as a sign that North Korea was covertly preparing for a third nuclear test, following previous ones in 2006 and 2009.

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