South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says North Korea appears to be preparing for a third nuclear weapons test. The report quotes an unidentified intelligence source as saying satellite images show workers digging a new tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the northeast.? ? The North conducted two previous nuclear tests in tunnels at the site — first in October of 2006 and again in May of 2009. The source told Yonhap it appears the tunnel work is in its final stage. North Korea agreed in February to stop nuclear tests, uranium enrichment and long-range missile launches.? Days later, U.S.

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