Japan says N Korea preparing for new nuclear tests

News or disinformation? I suspect the latter

North Korea preparing for new nuclear test after activity seen at underground tunnel, warns Japan

BritainReports,

31 March, 2018

North Korea is preparing for a new nuclear test, Japan has warned today.

The country Foreign Minister Taro Kono said: “[North Korea] is doing everything possible to prepare for the next nuclear test: it is currently extracting earth from an underground tunnel where the previous test was carried out”.

Earlier, the minister stated that North Korea “does not reveal its intentions to the outside world in terms of denuclearization.”

It comes just two days after it was announced that North and South Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un delivering his speech during a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang in February

The meeting on April 27 has been revealed by South Korean government officials who held high-level talks with their North Korean counterparts on Thursday.

The two Koreas had agreed earlier this month to hold such a summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom when South Korean President Moon Jae-in sent a delegation to Pyongyang to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The historic meeting will be only the third ever such meeting since the Korean War.

This week, it was confirmed Kim DID visit China for unofficial talks in his first trip outside North Korea since becoming leader in 2011.

Rumours Kim was in Beijing began to surface on Monday after a heavily armoured train arrived and received a VIP escort to a hotel, and were later confirmed on Wednesday.

Last year the dictator got into a war of words with US President Donald Trump, who referred to Kim as ‘Little Rocket Man’ at the UN.

At the time North Korea was regularly testing missiles, some which flew over nearby Japan and landed in the sea.

The two countries technically remain at war but South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who came to power in May, has pledged to engage North Korea in dialogue as well as bring pressure to impede its nuclear and missile programmes.