By Franz-Stefan Gady
South Korean intelligence thinks so but cautions that a test is not imminent.
South Korea’s top spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, believes that North Korea is planning for another nuclear test, however, not in the immediate future Yonhap News reports.
The assessment came during a closed-door briefing between Seoul’s spy service and South Korean lawmakers.
According to a statement made by the office of Lee Chul-woo, a member of the ruling Saenuri Party, the National Intelligence Service came to this conclusion after monitoring activities at North Korea’s main nuclear complex at Nyongbyon.
The spy agency neither revealed how it obtained the information, nor went into details about the precise nature of the test preparations. Lee Chul-woo and Shin Kyoung-min, another South Korean lawmaker, merely told local media that the National Intelligence Service is spying on North Korea’s nuclear facilities through “human” and “technological” means.
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