{"id":42945,"date":"2022-03-27T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/27\/north-korea-may-be-preparing-for-nuclear-test-soon-report"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T04:01:55","slug":"north-korea-may-be-preparing-for-nuclear-test-soon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42945","title":{"rendered":"North Korea may be preparing for nuclear test soon \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Shortcut\u2019 tunnel at Punggye-ri nuclear testing centre could see it operational within a month, sources tell South Korean news agency<\/p>\n<p>North Korea may be making rapid preparations to carry out a nuclear weapons test for the first time in more than four years, according to a South Korean media report.<\/p>\n<p>The Yonhap news agency, quoting government sources, said North Korea appeared to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20220327001200325?input=tw\">digging a \u201cshortcut\u201d to Tunnel 3<\/a> at its previously closed nuclear test site in Punggye-ri.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/27\/north-korea-may-be-preparing-for-nuclear-test-soon-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Shortcut\u2019 tunnel at Punggye-ri nuclear testing centre could see it operational within a month, sources tell South Korean news agencyNorth Korea may be making rapid preparations to carry out a nuclear weapons test for the first time in more than four y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,441,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions\/42946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}