The Telegraph:
North Korea may be preparing a fourth nuclear test, it has been reported, one day after China’s president issued an indirect call for the country’s leaders to avoid sowing “chaos for selfish gains.”
The Punggye-ri nuclear test facility in North Korea Photo: AFP/Getty Images
By Tom Phillips in Shanghai
3:56AM BST 08 Apr 2013
Signs of possible test preparations had been detected at Punggye-ri in North Korea, suggesting a fourth test could be imminent, an unidentified South Korean official told the JoongAng Daily newspaper.
“There are recent active movements of manpower and vehicles at the southern tunnel at Punggye-ri,” the “high-ranking” official said.
“We are monitoring because the situation is similar to behaviour seen prior to the third nuclear test.”
That little nut job is not going to be satisfied until he starts a war, a war that is going to be hard to keep from growing into a world war.
I thought things had gotten so bad in NORKland that they might go to war. This looks like a shakedown for tribute.
But a hungry summer and the resulting discontent might change the old calculus. the Dear Leaders have been sniffing their own farts so long & calling it fresh air, they might just miscalculate.
There are two other possible scenarios, 1) Iran is up to something and NORK is keeping the worlds attention away from them. 2) China is ready to make a move on some of the disputed territory and wants to keep the worlds attention on NORK until they are firmly established.