UPDATE: May Have Been A False Alarm
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean and U.S. seismic monitoring stations said early Wednesday they hadn’t detected any activity that could indicate a possible second North Korea nuclear test, responding to media reports of a possible explosion.
“There’s no signal from North Korea, even no small event,” Chi Heon-cheol, director of the South’s Korea Earthquake Research Center, told The Associated Press.
“There has been no activity in the last two hours,” U.S. Geological Survey official Rafael Abreu told AP just after 9 a.m. (0000 GMT) in Korea.
TOKYO (Reuters)- North Korea appears to have conducted another nuclear test, Japanese national broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
Japanese government sources had information that there was a tremor in North Korea this morning and they were checking on the possibility of a nuclear test, NHK said.
Defying warnings from its neighbors, the United States and the U.N. Security Council, North Korea announced on Monday that it had conducted its first-ever nuclear test. Pyongyang had earlier said a U.S. “threat of nuclear war and sanctions” had forced its hand.