Former UN Security Council member analysis report
Consistent with the evaluation of the ROK and US military authorities
[천지일보=김성완 기자] It has been revealed that North Korea is speeding up the restoration of its nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, North Hamgyong Province.
According to Voice of America (VOA) on the 30th (local time), Katsuhisa Hurkawa, a former member of the UN Security Council’s North Korea Sanctions Committee, was active at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, which North Korea claimed to have dismantled in 2018 through an analysis report of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. evaluated that there was
Former member Furukawa analyzed the commercial satellite images of Punggye-ri, and as a result, the preparations for a nuclear test were detected at the southern entrance of the previously unused tunnel 3 of the four tunnels in the nuclear test site.
According to the report, vehicle traffic increased significantly around the southern entrance of tunnel 3 in December of last year, and logs and piles of dirt were found in early March of this year. On the 4th, 16th, and 23rd, the half-destroyed building was repaired, and a new building was confirmed.
In addition, it was revealed that snow had been removed to the south of the nuclear test site, suggesting that they continue to operate the facility.
This report is also consistent with the evaluation of the ROK and US military authorities. A South Korean military source said that North Korea was caught excavating a new passageway instead of repairing the bombed entrance to the Punggye-ri nuclear test site on the 28th.
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