Bloomberg: North Korea’s nuclear test site appears “primed and ready”

You may have heard the talk that foreign media in North Korea have been told to expect something big today

Whatever that may be

Meanwhile, via Bloomberg:

  • North Korea's nuclear test site appears "primed and ready" to conduct a trial, according to a U.S. research institute that monitors the country
  • Commercial satellite imagery from April 12 shows activity at the Punggye-ri test site northeast of Pyongyang, analysts wrote on the 38 North website
  • That includes movement around the north portal and in the main administrative area, as well as some personnel around the command center, according to the website run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

more here at the piece

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Japan PM Abe has also been on the wires... saying Nth Korea may be able to out sarin gas on warheads

It just gets better and better doesn't it???

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Also ... China nuclear envoy to visit North Korea this week - Maeil (a South Korean newspaper)

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