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North Korea Planning Underground Nuclear Test

South Korea have claimed that North Korea are preparing to conduct another underground nuclear test, in a bid to escalate tensions with the UN and international community.  Seoul’s intelligence agency warned that Pyongyang is preparing its fifth nuclear test, just one day after it fired a long-range ballistic missile. Enews.pk reports: In its previous nuclear test, on 6 January, North Korea detonated what it says was a hydrogen bomb, but international experts have rejected that suggestion. Pyongyang’s latest provocations have been met with unanimous condemnation – even from allies China and Russia long ago – but a new nuclear test actually demonstrate what the regime of Kim Jong-un, thought to criticism. Immediately after the missile launch Sunday, South Korea put its forces on high alert for any alleged threat from the North. At a meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday, Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, said: “The security of South Korea and its people are in danger, since no one knows the irresponsible provocations North Korea will. Shortly after dawn on Monday, a North Korean patrol boat crossed the maritime border off the west coast of the Korean peninsula. South Korean vessel fired several warning shots [...]