Nine mining carts vehicles and personnel have been seen at the site
The report on the was based on an analysis of new commercial satellite images released of Punggye-ri, where the North Koreans have conducted.
Tunneling activities at North Korea's main nuclear test site have been stepped up, a USA -based think tank said Thursday, even as the inter-Korean peace talks resumed over the past week.
It said throughout December 2017, there were "mining carts and personnel" as well as what appeared to be a "spoil pile" that had been greatly expanded at the test facility's west portal.
The North Portal remains dormant with only water draining, and the West Portal shows increased signs of tunnel excavation, including new mining cart rails and significant expansion of the spoil pile.
The olive branch led to the first official dialogue between the two Koreas in more than two years, and an agreement for Pyongyang to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in the South.The apparent rapprochement came after months of confrontation, during which Pyongyang carried out multiple missile tests and by far its biggest nuclear detonation to date. We are only 11 days into 2018, and Kim Jong Un is reportedly preparing another nuclear test. Aftershocks were detected as late as November.
A recent report by TV Asahi claimed hundreds of North Korean personnel died after the tunnels collapsed at the test site.
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North Korea has stepped up tunnelling at its main nuclear test site, a USA think tank said, even as tensions cool on the peninsula following the resumption of long-stalled inter-Korean dialogue.
Writing for website 38 North, Mr Vorontsov said he was told North Korea is so convinced war is about to about to break out soldiers have been "sleeping without removing their boots".
North Korean intelligence had reported "construction had resumed at a fourth tunnel (West Portal), making it unable to be used "for a considerable amount of time".
While military tensions have shown no signs of breaking, with the U.S. ordering three nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to the Pacific territory of Guam on Thursday, both sides have proven more amenable to the notion of peace talks in 2018.
"These [North Korea] officials feared that the USA was already trying to shape the battlefield for a military operation against the North, and that South Koreans do not seem to have grasped the reality that the Trump administration is set on a course for preventive war".
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