{"id":26807,"date":"2023-11-03T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/?p=26807"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T13:59:07","slug":"north-korea-prepares-nuclear-test-as-trail-revealed-between-jail-and-test-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/world-news\/north-korea-prepares-nuclear-test-as-trail-revealed-between-jail-and-test-site\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea prepares nuclear test as trail revealed between jail and test site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fears are growing that North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test, following the discovery of a secret path linking the country's largest concentration camp to its bomb test site.<\/p>\n

Kim Jong Un, who had previously destroyed the Punggye-ri test site in 2018, is believed to have rebuilt it for a potential new blast. The chilling new find in the North Korean wilderness could reveal how this was done.<\/p>\n

The country's biggest concentration camp, Hwasong, is just a few kilometres from Punggye-ri and is rumoured to provide slave labour to the test site. Previously, travel between the two locations required a 100-mile round trip due to the mountainous terrain.<\/p>\n

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However, satellite images have now revealed a hidden trail across the mountains, bringing the two sites within walking distance and suggesting forced labour may have been used to rebuild Punggye-ri. This worrying discovery was unveiled in a report by the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), which warned that the regime "could conduct another test at any time of its choosing".<\/p>\n

The report also included testimony from a guard at another camp, who claimed that Punggye-ri was "a source of fear among the political prisoners once taken there, no one came back alive."<\/p>\n

Raymond Ha of HRNK stated: "Nearly eighty years after Allied air forces took aerial photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau, satellite imagery plays a critical role in documenting and understanding the core of the Kim regime's crimes against humanity: its political prison camps.<\/p>\n

"This shows evidence of a physical connection between the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and Hwasong concentration camp."<\/p>\n

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