A North Korean soldier stands guard at the entrance to a tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility in 2018. Photo: News1 / Dong-a Ilbo via AFP
North Korea reactivating closed nuclear test site, satellite images suggest
- Punggye-ri has been closed since 2018, when North Korea declared a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons tests that Kim Jong-un says he no longer feels bound by
- Analysts from the US-based Centre for Nonproliferation Studies said that the test site is many months, if not years, from being ready for new nuclear explosions
