North Korea has made some moves to placate Washington, suspending its nuclear and missile tests, demolishing its underground nuclear test site and tearing down a missile engine test site.
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"The remains returns, the closing of the nuclear test site, the closure of missile test site are all very good, but in a way irrelevant to actual denuclearization," he said.
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This is field where the test site is actually located.
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PUNGGYE-RI NUCLEAR TEST SITE, NORTH KOREA - APRIL 16, 2017.
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On Thursday, he demolished his country's only nuclear test site.
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They secured the closure of their single primary nuclear test site.
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A company spokeswoman declined to comment on the English test site.
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Apple's self-driving car project might have a new test site.
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First, invite international inspectors to the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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NORTH KOREA CLAIMS TO HAVE DEMOLISHED NUCLEAR TEST SITE The explosions at the supposed nuclear test site were reportedly centered on three tunnels into the underground site and a number of observation towers in the area.
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Mr. Trump insisted he secured concessions from Mr. Kim, including a nuclear and missile test suspension that is already in its seventh month, and the destruction of a missile test site and an engine test site.
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So far, we know that one nuclear test site is shut down.
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Their newest test site in the US hadn't been easy to find.
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The Pyunggye-ri site is North Korea's only known nuclear test site.
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Gigantic tubes already are scattered around the Las Vegas area test site.
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The company is also looking for test site in a European city.
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"The test site is close to the Chinese border," Mr. Haenle said.
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Business Insider travelled to Cambridge to try and locate the drone test site.
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A North Korean nuclear test site has likely collapsed, according to new research.
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This image shows the route from Worsted Lodge to the drone test site.
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Locating the test site isn't as simple as identifying the right missile silo.
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This is the engine test site for a fledgling rocket startup called Launcher.
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Before and after photos show differences at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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HANNITY: And no more rockets being fired and a dismantled nuclear test site.
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Clues before a test North Korea has one nuclear test site: Punggye-ri.
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To demonstrate its commitment, it said it would destroy the nuclear test site.
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We searched for the nearest test site and found it was in Thailand.
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The video opens with footage from what appears to be a test site.
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It first broke ground on a test site in LA in late 2017.
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Mr. Skripal had been poisoned near a British test site for chemical weapons!
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At the test site, people will drive to different stations in their car.
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The biggest outlier, North Korea, recently declared a closure of its test site.
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Before the summit, it destroyed something else — its test site for underground nuclear blasts.
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An earthquake of 5.1-magnitude was reported near the country's Punggye-rinuclear test site.
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Test vehicles can only be driven in autonomous mode within an approved test-site.
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Eight and half minutes later, there was another smaller tremor at the test site.
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North Korea, meanwhile, has pledged to publicly dismantle its nuclear test site next week.
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As noted, similar spheroids were found at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.
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The target missile was launched from the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands.
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Additionally, the SuperDraco thrusters recovered from the test site remained intact, underscoring their reliability.
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The Wall Street Journal: North Korea to shut down nuclear test site in May.
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The test site will be for research and development, and not for public use.
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In 1945 (maybe?), a gas station and convenience store near the test site (maybe
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There are an astounding number of highly entertaining signs scattered throughout the test site.
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So far, CVS has one test site, Walmart has two and Walgreens has one.
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North Korea has yet to officially comment on the closure of the nuclear test site.
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The last American test was on September 23, 1992 at the underground Nevada Test Site.
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The new tool, launched today, is currently available on the company's test site, Shutterstock Labs.
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New satellite images are now showing North Korea is already dismantling their nuclear test site.
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Onlookers wearing hard hats appear to film the demolition of the supposed nuclear test site.
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Experts have suggested the area around the Punggye-ri test site may now be unstable.
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As Kim wrote, Enewetak was just what the US military wanted in a test site.
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The test was conducted at a sprawling landing test site in Huailai, northwest of Beijing.
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The Greater Copenhagen Fire Department in Denmark has already been selected as one test site.
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On Saturday, Pyongyang said it will dismantle its nuclear test site on May 23-25.
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A deadly explosion of a missile engine at a military test site on Aug. 8.
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One of the destroyers is located 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site.
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In Asia, Thailand, America's oldest Asian ally, launched last Friday a Huawei 5G test site.
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Operation Teapot was a series of 14 test on the Nevada Test Site in 1955.
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In 1956, teenagers living near the nuclear test site have a polite and awkward courtship.
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He landed a job at a nuclear test site, and built a home in Nevada.
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Satellite imagery since the test has showed evidence of numerous landslides at the test site.
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G.M. has already begun mapping a test site in Manhattan, according to the governor's office.
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Second, urge North Korea to dismantle Tongchang-ri missile-engine test site and launching pad.
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It followed his recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut a nuclear bomb test site.
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LC-16 was built by the Air Force in the 23s, as a missile test site.
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This technology will allow the team to deploy the vehicle quickly and reach the test site.
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Kim Jong Un conducted at least six of its nuclear tests at Punggye-ri test site.
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Guards and researchers will be withdrawn, and the area surrounding the test site will be closed.
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It opened its first test site last week in the parking lot of a Massachusetts store.
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Jilin Province is about 60 miles from Punggye-ri, the main North Korean nuclear test site.
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SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shutting down North Korea's nuclear test site is trickier than it might seem.
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The United States, meanwhile, detonated at least 828 nuclear bombs underground at its Nevada Test Site.
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Tough conditions One down-side to the drive-through test site is the Korean winter weather.
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Last year, Pyongyang blew up some of the tunnels at its nuclear test site, Punggye-ri.
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But last week, speaking at a regional forum, the North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho said the United States was not doing enough, while his country had halted nuclear and missile tests, demolished an underground nuclear test site and started dismantling a missile engine test site.
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Recent satellite imagery indicates a potentially significant change at the Punggye-ri test site, the officials said.
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They also guessed that the test site was made out of a type of granite-like rock.
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Artist Chris Drury found microscopic soil bacteria known as Microcoleus vaginatus living in the Nevada Test Site.
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North Korea is expected to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site sometime between Wednesday and Friday.
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Mount Mantap in the North, not far from the Chinese border, is the regime's nuclear test site.
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Take as an example, North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, which is housed inside a mountain.
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Pyongyang said on Saturday it would suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site.
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A test site in Puerto Rico is capable of launching a balloon every 30 minutes, it added.
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And today, to great fanfare, North Korea claims to have destroyed its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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"We're starting in Northern Nevada because the state is an FAA-approved drone test site," Sweeny said.
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Pompeo said he had pushed North Korea on a promise to destroy a missile engine test site.
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A test site in San Francisco will be constructed with the aim to open in early 2020.
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Next up is 913D's THE GRANITE STATE, which is the TEST SITE, according to the adjacent 55D.
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Steve O'Neil: Yes, here on the reservoir is actually the world's largest test site for floating solar.
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One is still located at Russia's missile test site at Kapustin Yar in southern Russia near Volgograd.
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Sunday's test had registered with international seismic agencies as a man-made earthquake near a test site.
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That's helped analysts locate North Korea's test site in the far northeast of the country, called Punggye-ri.
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The first-ever nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.
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The country's only nuclear test site, Punggye-ri, is believed to be ready for a sixth nuclear test.
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Similarly, we're hearing more about North Korea's plans to dismantle a nuclear test site, the Punggye-ri complex.
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It is possible that unexplained problems with Pyongyang's test site and weapons may have contributed to that decision.
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At that meeting, Kim agreed to let international observers watch the forthcoming dismantlement of a missile test site.
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The U.S. city of Pittsburgh, a test site for Uber's self-driving cars, also backed the principles Thursday.
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"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," Trump tweeted.
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They have detected three similar tremors from near the test site since the North's nuclear test on Sept.
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Planet, a company in San Francisco that owns swarms of tiny satellites, reconnoitered the secretive nuclear test site.
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North Korea said on Saturday it would suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site.
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At twelve, he started collecting newspaper articles about the health problems of people living near the test site.
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Speaking at a closed-door session at a regional security forum in Singapore, Ri Yong-ho, North Korea's foreign minister, said his country had taken a series of actions toward denuclearization, such as halting nuclear and missile tests, demolishing an underground nuclear test site and dismantling a missile engine test site.
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In reality, the booster safely touched down at the Blue Origin test site about seven minutes after liftoff. [SpaceNews]
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Other North Korean gestures like the demolition of its Punggye-ri nuclear test site were limited concessions at best.
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The X initiative announced it was testing its unmanned aircraft at an unspecified FAA drone test site in August.
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It said the underground test site did not leak radioactive materials, which would make such a determination even harder.
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" CANCER STUDY OF NEW MEXICO NUCLEAR TEST SITE EXPECTED TO FINISH IN 2019 "The whole village has been poisoned.
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The subterranean explosion also caused the collapse of the nuclear chamber at the at Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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But the country could conceivably already have another, as yet undetected full-service test site waiting in the wings.
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In July, satellite imagery indicated it had begun dismantling the engine test site, but also without allowing outside verification.
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On September 23, 1992, the United States conducted its last underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
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"Shutting down this test site suggests that North Korea (maybe) will not test again at this site," he said.
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North Korea said it would destroy its only known nuclear test site between May 23 and 25, weather permitting.
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U.S. officials have not publicly spoken about the blast, which occurred last week near the Nenoksa Missile Test Site.
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When North Korea exploded its nuclear test site at Punggye-ri last month, it was likely all a charade.
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He also said the agency had not detected any unusual activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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He added that the agency had not detected any unusual activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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North Korea has closed its only known underground nuclear test site and agreed to dismantle some missile-test facilities.
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The following day, North Korea set a time frame for the dismantling of its most prominent nuclear test site.
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The company plans to conduct its first suborbital launches this winter at a new test site in New Mexico.
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While the search for a coastal launch site continues, the company is building out a test site over land.
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A second battalion remains at Russia's missile test site at Kapustin Yar, in the country's southeast, the Times reports.
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It's also an atoll where nuclear weapons were tested between 1946 and 1958, so the answer is TEST SITE.
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The test site is located at a Walmart store in Salem, New Hampshire, about 40 minutes northwest of Boston.
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Severodvinsk is near a rocket test site where Moscow acknowledged that five people were killed in an August explosion.
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San Nicolas Island has discreetly served as the Navy's premier test site for state-of-the-art weapons systems.
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Because the land was downwind from the test site, the government gave them plutonium counters to check for exposure.
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"Based on what just happened at the test site, he doesn't seem to have been kidding," Mr. Revere said.
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It has dismantled entrances to a nuclear test site (at Punggye-ri) and a satellite-launching site (at Sohae).
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North Korea has so far suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and destroyed its underground nuclear test site.
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" Trump earlier tweeted: "North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site.
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In May, it invited foreign journalists to witness what it said was the demolition of its nuclear test site.
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North Korea lays out details of a plan to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site later in May.
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On Google Maps, users were posting satirical would-be travel reviews about the bomb's test site, complete with star ratings.
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On Saturday, Kim announced he would close the nuclear test site because his country no longer has use for it.
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Huber+Suhner issued its own statement, saying that a test site short-circuited in Germany, and that nobody was injured.
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This tank is so big and heavy that it'll have to be delivered to the test site on a barge.
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When a daylight projection comes on, shot at a military test site in Nevada, drones streak like bullets above us.
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Satellite images had shown new activity at the test site in recent weeks, according to North Korea monitoring site 38North.
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Photo: SiemensAzuraAzura is a wave power device currently being tested at the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site in Hawaii.
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The astronauts have also been spending time in Florida, where they'll launch from, and SpaceX's test site in McGregor, Texas.
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Outside Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech set up a test site that incorporates stretches of public roads and a closed track.
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Debris collected from the test site in Florida, which identified burning within the check valve, informed the tests in Texas.
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On Thursday, Trump called off the meeting, even as North Korea made a show of dismantling a nuclear test site.
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It also agreed to dismantle a satellite launch facility and destroyed the tunnels at its former nuclear weapons test site.
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North Korea's military has been spotted seemingly playing a game of volleyball at the main Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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This July 16, 1945 photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico.
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BP (BP) and Didi already operate a test site in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou with 10 charging stations.
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He later closed his country's only known nuclear test site and offered to demolish a stand for testing missile engines.
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To get a brief on the stealth fighter, Casey once descended on the [nuclear] test site north of Las Vegas.
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The new satellite images of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site were taken Monday, the day after the nuclear detonation.
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North Korea invited outside journalists to watch the shutting down of its only known nuclear test site on May 24.
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"The nuclear test site has done its job," Mr. Kim said in a statement carried by North Korea's state media.
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Adding to tensions were signs last week in North Korea of intensified activities at its Punggye-ri underground test site.
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Hawaii: Act 208 created a drone test site advisory board, along with a chief operating officer to oversee the site.
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According to the satellite imagery published by 38 North, the renewed work on the test site began sometime after Feb.
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US satellites have watched a test site for several weeks and seen fresh signs of digging and activity at tunnel entrances.
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The rocket, which did not have a crew on board, took off from a test site in rural Texas early Thursday.
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Virginia Tech is home to a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration test site, which is run by the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.
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That has been in place since 2010 thanks to another EU-led development project, the so-called Wave Hub test site.
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The problem is scaling it up to be useful to greater society — not just a kind of successful test site somewhere.
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Several meteorological agencies reported a powerful earthquake in North Korea, centred on a known nuclear test site in North Hamgyong province.
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The cancellation came even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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Following the September 3rd test, news outlets had speculated, based on less-detailed satellite images, that the test site had collapsed.
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But Dreger doesn't think that his team's results necessarily show that the test site was too destroyed to test there again.
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The announcement, via state news agency KCNA, also included plans to shutter its nuclear test site, according to the Washington Post.
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The rumbling started early Wednesday morning when a small earthquake was detected near a known nuclear test site in North Korea.
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Analysts at North Korea-tracking project 38 North released images showing the test site was "primed and ready" back in April.
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But reports of significant issues at the Punggye-ri test site due to the sixth nuclear test have trickled out anyway.
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North Korea said Saturday it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site.
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Still, Mantap may continue to be used as a test site — if North Korea decides to continue its nuclear testing program.
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Early Thursday morning, North Korea, largely in a symbolic gesture, put on a show by blowing up their nuclear test site.
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The president's optimism toward North Korea comes as Kim has agreed to dismantle a missile test site and a nuclear complex.
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North Korea had returned American hostages and destroyed a nuclear test site prior to the meeting as gestures of good faith.
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Satellite photos of North Korea's nuclear test site indicate that at least three more tests are possible at a moment's notice.
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Among the possible contenders is a former military base in California that has been turned into a 2,100-acre test site.
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One area where North Korea may be running into serious problems is at its underground nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.
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He imposed a voluntary moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests and shut down the North's underground nuclear test site.
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So part of the deal Kim Jong-un is making is to give up the test site that he already destroyed?
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Mr. Fertman's company, which he started with a business partner, Stephanie Skinner, now has 100 active users on its test site.
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"Also will "Shut down a nuclear test site in the country's Northern Side to prove the vow to suspend nuclear tests.
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Mr. Bermudez spoke with reporters on Tuesday, and the group on Wednesday put out a report on the test-site developments.
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Previous images of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site have revealed personnel playing volleyball, but never before in three concurrent games.
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"After initial reporting of plans to allow experts and media personnel to observe the closing of North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, now scheduled for next week, commercial satellite imagery from May 7 provided the first definitive evidence that dismantlement of the test site was already well underway," researchers for 38 North wrote in the analysis posted Monday.
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However, other governments in the area maintain equipment that would detect any large-scale aerial release of radiation from the test site.
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The test site includes a single container at one end of a field and a slightly larger complex at the other end.
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North Korea announced ahead of the Singapore summit the suspension of its ICBM testing and also closed its nuclear bomb test site.
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The unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed at the company's test site in Manassas, Virginia.
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No matter that North Korea had just destroyed its nuclear test site, though some experts believe it had been damaged beyond repair.
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Between 1951 and 1992, 928 nuclear tests were conducted at a single site, the Nevada Test Site, located on Western Shoshone land.
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The bomb, detonated at Punggye-ri nuclear test site within Mount Mantap, produced 250 kilotons of TNT, according to the new research.
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The dismantling of the North&aposs Punggye-ri nuclear test site is expected to happen between Wednesday and Friday depending on weather.
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Although North Korea committed to closing Punggye-ri's test site, another facility could be used to continue the country's nuclear weapons program.
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However, subsequent images indicated North Korea had halted work to dismantle the missile engine test site in the first part of August.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in asked the United Nations to help verify North Korea's planned shutdown of its nuclear test site.
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Moon told reporters that Kim had agreed to dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers.
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"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," Trump wrote on Twitter Friday evening.
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The Donegal Mountain Rescue Team in Ireland is another test site that will focus on search and rescue missions and crowd sourcing.
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North Korea had returned American hostages and destroyed a nuclear test site prior to the meeting as a gesture of good faith.
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Adding to the concern, Chinese researchers said in September that North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site was at risk of imploding.
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Pyongyang's announcement on its nuclear test site is seen by many analysts as a way of declaring itself a genuine nuclear power.
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The ministry did not elaborate but the North Korean decision is likely to raise doubts about its plan for the test site.
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In any case, there are lots of tubes scattered around the test site, and they're fun to look through, climb on, etc.
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The president praised Mr. Kim's announcement last week that he would suspend missile and nuclear tests and close a nuclear test site.
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The Punggye-ri test site will close *because* North Korea feels it has conducted sufficient testing and is happy with its weapons.
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FRONT PAGE An article on Monday about North Korea's latest nuclear test misstated the location of the Punggye-ri underground test site.
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This won't be another test site, Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda said Monday during a press conference ahead of CES 2020.
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This week, the North invited international journalists to watch its engineers shut down its only-known nuclear test site later this month.
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Satellite imagery of the nuclear test site in the country's northeast showed that the North was ready for a test, analysts said.
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North Korea on Friday said it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site.
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The U.S. Geological Survey, meanwhile, said it recorded a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near the North Korean nuclear test site in the northeast.
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The missile is believed to have been moved in December from a test site in southern Russia to an undisclosed operational base.
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There is also the option to operationalize the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) and make the current Aegis Ashore test site permanent.
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Satellite imagery suggests it has started dismantling a missile-engine test site, as Mr. Kim had promised during the meeting last month.
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North Korea also reaffirmed its earlier commitment to destroy its missile engine test site which will make the region and the world safer.
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North Korean state media said earlier on Saturday the country would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site.
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The test was conducted at SpaceX's test site and development facility in McGregor, Texas, last week, ahead of a planned late-summer launch.
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Harris County is a test site for the high-tech device, becoming the first government agency in the country to try it out.
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Artist Peter Goin gained access to the nuclear test sites by foot in the series Nuclear Landscapes, the Nevada Test Site, 1985–1991.
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But keep in mind, Kim has already turned over those three American hostages and is hours away from dismantling a nuclear test site.
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This was further underscored by the PR stunt North Korea pulled this week when it unilaterally "destroyed" its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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This is the perfect time for a further nuclear test -- it has already prepared its test site -- and probably for more missile launches.
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Numerous other news organizations, including Reuters, had also sought to cover the shutdown of the North's nuclear test site but were denied invitations.
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The U.S. announcement came not long after Kim appeared to make good on his promise to demolish his country&aposs nuclear test site.
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The announcement on North Korean state TV followed detection of a 5.1 magnitude earthquake near its known nuclear test site earlier on Wednesday.
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The company recently reached an agreement with Nevada's governor's office to develop the Ehang 184 at the state's FAA-approved UAV test site.
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In North Korea, an earthquake that appears to have been man-made near a nuclear test site was detected by several monitoring agencies.
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While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev.
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Ahead of the scheduled inter-Korean meeting, Pyongyang said it would halt all nuclear and missile tests and scrap its nuclear test site.
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Still, the isolated country has promised to close its main nuclear test site, its state-run Korean Central News Agency reported in April.
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Two people were killed and six injured by the explosion of a liquid-propelled rocket engine at a test site in northern Russia.
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Commercial satellite imagery shows North Korea has begun dismantling its nuclear test site, according to an analysis from a prominent U.S.-based monitor.
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Since April, it has declared a moratorium on nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests and demolished its only-known nuclear test site.
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This year, North Korea imposed a voluntary moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests and shut down its underground nuclear test site.
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A 5.1 magnitude quake was detected close to its test site at Punggye-ri, indicating a test of some kind has been conducted.
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And satellite evidence suggests North Korea has begun dismantling a test site where it has developed missile technologies and launched space satellite missions.
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Russia blast What was behind a fatal blast that killed five nuclear specialists at a military test site last week in northern Russia?
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"North Korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site," the president said in a Twitter message.
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It follows reports in October that the test site is unstable and experienced tunnel collapses that have killed several hundred North Korean laborers.
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The company built an early prototype at a test site in South Texas, and it completed a few low-altitude tests this summer.
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Three tunnels were demolished at the site in Punggye-ri, in northeastern North Korea, which is the North's only known nuclear test site.
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The Polygon Nuclear Test Site VII, Kazakhstan 2011 Kurchatov I (Scientific Research Facility), Kazakhstan 2011 The Polygon Nuclear Test Site XII (Dust To Dust), Kazakhstan 2011 Priozersk I (Military Housing), Kazakhstan 2011 Priozersk XVI (Reeds), Kazakhstan 2011 The Aral Sea III (Fishing Trawler), Kazakhstan 2011 The experience of seeing Nadav Kander's landscapes begins pleasantly enough but often leaves you feeling unsettled.
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On Saturday, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO posted the first glimpse of a mostly finished portion of the Boring Company's test site in California.
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A nuclear test site in North Korea will close in May under the gaze of international observers, according to the South Korean president's office.
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In May 2015, during one of its earliest test flights, a prototype for the solar-powered drone crashed at a New Mexico test site.
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Thanks, Ed. Also tonight, North Korea is claiming to have destroyed its nuclear test site by setting off explosions in front of foreign journalists.
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But keep in mind, Kim has already turned over those three American hostages and he&aposs hours away from dismantling a nuclear test site.
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If that doesn't work, Ehang has permission from the state of Nevada to test the Ehang 184 at its FAA-approved UAV test site.
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea says any future nuclear test by North Korea risks collapsing its mountain test site and triggering a radiation leak.
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Work requirement supporters often cited the most successful test site — Riverside, California — where the employment rate among recipients rose 10 to 15 percentage points.
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Trump said the North Korean decision to close the test site, along with its suspensions of nuclear and ballistic missile tests, were hopeful signs.
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In fact, one day into the drills, North Korea announced it would invite foreign journalists to cover the destruction of its nuclear test site.
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Foreign journalists were welcomed to witness the detonation of the test site, which happened just hours before Trump sent his cancellation letter to Kim.
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It is important to witness the blowing up of one nuclear test site but, of equal importance, will be the dismantling of Kim's gulag.
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The talks followed what a U.S. official said on Tuesday were new movements detected by U.S. spy satellites at North Korea's nuclear test site.
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To get started, they designed and launched a test site — then known as ShopMoolah — in just 24 hours to gauge response before investing heavily.
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Last month, during a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Kim promised to stop nuclear missile testing and close a test site.
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Is there a period of time where people are making content moderation decisions on a dummy site or test site or something like that?
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Is it future or is it past?) He and Diane drove to a location exactly 403 miles from something else (the Trinity test site
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North Korea has recently started dismantling a missile-engine test site, as Mr. Trump said Mr. Kim promised he would during their summit meeting.
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Recent reports indicate that some areas of the Punggye-ri test site have become unstable after the latest and largest nuclear test in September.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said earlier the country no longer needed nuclear and missile tests and would close a nuclear test site.
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The launch follows remarks from President Donald Trump that Google is building a coronavirus test site, which seemed to have caught Google by surprise.
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The explosive result occurred while SpaceX was seemingly conducting some pressure tests with the vehicle at the company's test site in Boca Chica, Texas.
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North Korea announced last month that it would end all nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests, as well as close the test site.
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Citing recent satellite imagery at North Korea's main nuclear test site, analysts said that the country might be ready for its sixth nuclear test.
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Now the company has started to move into Spaceport America after spending more than a decade at the company's test site in Mojave, California.
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The messages came after North Korea announced on Sunday that it had carried out a "very important test" at its missile-engine test site.
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"This situation has provided a test site for both how this particular virus is transmitted and how we might handle another pandemic," Hopland said.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk unveiled the company's prototype Starship during a flashy event at its test site in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday night.
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Days before the summit, Kim said North Korea would suspend nuclear and long-range missile tests and dismantle its only known nuclear test site.
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They secured the closure of their single primary nuclear test site, all three of them, they're in an area that's common around each other.
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North Korea's announcement of its plan to destroy its only nuclear test site had been widely welcomed as a positive, if largely symbolic, step.
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Days before Friday's summit, Kim said North Korea would suspend nuclear and long-range missile tests and dismantle its only known nuclear test site.
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North Korea is expected to make a show of shutting down its nuclear test site, but experts suspect it's either unusable anyway or easily repaired.
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Recent satellite imagery of the test site has shown workers deconstructing buildings and trucks hauling off equipment, but nobody is quite sure what to expect.
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Outsiders can only get a limited picture of the country, let alone the test site, thanks to its isolation from the rest of the world.
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China was widely condemned for a similar test with a missile that exploded over its Lop Nur test site in the country's west in 1966.
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Rumors have been flying around about the possibility of a North Korean nuclear test, thanks in part to activity at North Korea's nuclear test site.
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Earlier this year, the unpiloted vehicle took off vertically, hovered for a few seconds, and then landed at the company's test site in Manassas, Virginia.
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When it detonated over a test site in Russia, it produced a 64 kilometer-high mushroom cloud — about seven times the height of Mount Everest.
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Our prediction is that the next test site on July 7 will be positive for a gate opening, which is when the real work begins.
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On Wednesday it was escorting a group of international reporters, including an Associated Press Television crew, to witness the closure of its atomic test site.
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On July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the first-ever nuclear bomb, conducting the event at the Trinity test site in southern New Mexico.
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Japan has confirmed that North Korea carried out nuclear tests on Friday morning, which triggered 5.3 magnitude tremors at a test site in North Korea.
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NASA said in a press release Wednesday that it signed an agreement for Blue Origin to use its rocket engine test site in Huntsville, Alabama.
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"There is no basis to conclude that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site is no longer viable for future nuclear testing," it wrote on Monday.
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In addition to the test site in Vegas, the startup has a growing engineering facility in Los Angeles, where it is working on tube production.
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Image: USGSAccording to the US Geological Survey, a 5.3 magnitude "explosion" has been detected in North Korea near the country's only known nuclear test site.
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High Desert Test site events have been held more or less annually since 2002, with the next event, "Desert as Situation," slated for next year.
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The renewed uncertainty comes as North Korea prepares to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site Wednesday in front of journalists from around the world.
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North Korea said on Saturday it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and pursue economic growth and peace instead.
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The report added that two American destroyers are in the area, with one armed and ready about 300 miles from North Korea's nuclear test site.
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With her second book, Savage Dreams, she explored the history of Yosemite National Park, the Nevada Test Site, and America's ongoing war on indigenous people.
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SpaceX also worked closely with the US Air Force (USAF) to secure the test site, and collect and clean debris as part of the investigation.
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In May it allowed foreign television crews to film explosions at a missile test site it said was no longer necessary for its weapons development.
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Just days before the summit, Kim said North Korea would suspend nuclear and long-range missile tests and dismantle its only known nuclear test site.
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If accurate, the analysis of the images appears to show that North Korea has taken concrete steps to dismantle the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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A mysterious, deadly explosion at a missile test site in Nyonoksa, northwest Russia, in August suggested that Russia was building another nuclear-powered cruise missile.
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The suspected bomb, which was probably North Korea's fifth overall, caused a magnitude-5.3 earthquake near the test site, according to South Korea's meteorological society.
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Last Thursday, an eruption at a missile test site on Russia's Arctic coast released radiation and killed at least seven people, including five nuclear workers.
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Since then, Pyongyang has suspended missile tests, released three American detainees, and announced it will dismantle a nuclear test site in front of international media.
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Ultimately, North Korea blew up the cooling tower of that reactor, much as it blew up tunnel entrances to its nuclear test site last week.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after meeting with Kim-Jong-un this week, said external inspectors would be allowed into the country's nuclear test site.
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After halting nuclear and missile tests and releasing three American detainees, the North Koreans on Thursday apparently blew up their only known nuclear test site.
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The European aerospace firm said the unmanned, jet-propelled craft flew by itself for around seven minutes over a test site in Overberg, South Africa.
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"To date, we haven't heard any noise that is linked to the blow of a tunnel in the vicinity of the test site," he said.
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Five days later, Kim ordered his nation's most powerful nuclear test to date, a thermonuclear test blast that fractured the mountain above the test site.
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During an announcement in Seoul on Thursday, Moon said the North Korean leader had promised to should down the second nuclear test site, Tongchang-ri.
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North Korea's nuclear test site is close to the border with Jilin, and the nuclear test in early September has left residents with lingering anxiety.
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So right now Amazon is testing their drone delivery program in the U.K. And they have a test site in Canada and maybe other places.
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North Korea said on Saturday it was suspending nuclear and missile tests and scrapping its nuclear test site, and instead pursuing economic growth and peace.
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So in other words, it's possible North Korean officials are coming to the table because they have nothing to lose from giving up the test site.
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Before the June summit, North Korea imposed a moratorium on its nuclear and missile tests, shut down its nuclear test site and released three American detainees.
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North Korea announced on Friday it had conducted its fifth nuclear test, hours after seismic monitors detected a blast near the secretive country's nuclear test site.
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Officials in North Korea are said to have wanted some relief from sanctions in return for last year destroying the country's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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The tilted orientation of Emmet Gowin's aerial photograph "Subsidence Craters on Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site" (1603) feels spontaneously captured, like he discovered a strange land.
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Over at the company's website, a carefully curated blog post, titled "A robot fled the test site," offers several photos and detailed commentary on the incident.
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This is American territory, claimed by a naval gunboat in 1899 and maintained today as an aircraft refuelling stop and test site for missile defence systems.
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A South Korean defense ministry spokesman said there was an unused tunnel at the Punggye-ri test site, which could be used for a sixth explosion.
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The Japanese TV station reported on Tuesday that 200 are feared dead after an underground tunnel collapsed at the Punggye-ri test site on Oct. 10.
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Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi, citing unnamed sources, said on Tuesday a tunnel at the test site collapsed after that explosion, possibly killing more than 200 people.
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North Korea said on Saturday that it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue peace and economic growth.
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Satellite imagery analyzed by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea monitoring project, found some activity at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site last week.
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Shortly after General Flynn's warning, FoxNews reported that U.S. satellites spotted a long-range Safir missile at Iran's main missile test site, being prepped for launch.
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While they have agreed to halt missile tests and close a nuclear test site, North Korea has not yet agreed to give up its nuclear weapons.
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Since Kim's grandfather, Kim Il-sung, first established a missile test site in 1984, North Korea's long-range missile development has come in fits and starts.
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A U.S. think tank said Friday that North Korea could be preparing for another nuclear test, based on satellite images from the country's nuclear test site.
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Huber+Suhner recommended shutting down stations using its cables after a short circuit incident in the plug of a charger at a test site in Germany.
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Taylor apparently lit his cigarette during Operation Tumbler-Snapper, which was a series of test blasts orchestrated by the US military at the Nevada Test Site.
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A North Korean nuclear test site recently shuttered by Pyongyang is unusable and will cause a catastrophe if another test occurs, according to a new report.
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The North is seen ready to conduct its sixth nuclear test at any time, with movements detected by satellites at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Trump was asked in Monday's interview if North Korea had done anything beyond dismantling a test site to show it was in the process of denuclearizing.
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North Korea will also shut down a nuclear test site in the country's north in order to "prove the vow to suspend nuclear test," KCNA reports.
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Hanham pointed out that while North Korea just put its nuclear test site out of commission, it still has plenty of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.
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North Korea has also revoked its invitation for South Korean reporters to visit the North and watch the closing of its nuclear test site this week.
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We closed the Semipalatinsk test site and worked successfully with both Russia and the USA to eliminate its infrastructure and make the material safe and secure.
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Elon Musk delivered an update on his company's Starship prototype, which faces business challenges and neighbors not happy to live so close to its test site.
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Nine states are exploring hyperloop technology: Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, Indiana, and Oregon, in addition to Nevada, which hosts our test site.
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The recent activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site comes on the heels of North and South Korean negotiators meeting Tuesday at the Demilitarized Zone.
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"I grew up in Semipalatinsk, just 150 km away from the test site where the Soviet Union was testing most of its nuclear weapons," he said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Uber Technologies said it will use Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, as the first international test site for the group's planned flying taxi service.
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Project Wing completed a burrito delivery with Chipotle to Virginia Tech students last September at the same test site it conducted its recent traffic management trials.
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He was able to corner Shervin Pishevar at the test site in the Nevada desert where the company was gearing up to show off its propulsion system.
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For the first of these three, the artist ventured into the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan for a series of photographs in the analogue medium format.
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An increase in activity at the North's nuclear test site could signal preparations for a new test, a U.S.-based monitoring group, 38 North, said on Friday.
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On Sunday, Moon's office said Kim had told Moon that he would close North Korea's nuclear test site in May in full view of the outside world.
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Kim Jong-un said North Korea would "no longer need" nuclear tests and would close a test site ahead of meetings with the South and President Trump.
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This test site will be critical in ensuring that the SLS's 537,000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank can withstand the extreme forces it'll have to endure during launch.
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Using a speed test site or app might give you some more clues as to what's causing the wi-fi to slow down or drop completely.4.
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One involved flying with his son to a "controlled" ACT test site, and then having a "proctor" correct many of his son's answers after they flew home.
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South Korea detected several earthquakes near the North&aposs nuclear test site in the country&aposs northeast after its sixth and most powerful bomb explosion in September.
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A testing freeze and commitment to close the test site alone would fall short of Washington's demand that Pyongyang completely dismantle all its nuclear weapons and missiles.
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Not far from the test site of the first atomic bomb, high in the mountains above the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, sits Sunspot Observatory.
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Ranchers abandoned the land around the test site in 1942, when the US government took over the area for use as a training range for bomber crews.
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In California, a former military base has been turned into a 2,100-acre test site called GoMentum Station, where Honda has been testing its autonomous driving technology.
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In the earliest stage of the project, initiated under President George W. Bush, Greenberg and her colleagues sifted through geological records to find an appropriate test site.
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Invited foreign journalists are en route to view the closing of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, scheduled to happen between Wednesday and Friday, depending on weather.
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North Korea has said it'll stop testing nukes and missiles and would close a nuclear test site, but it hasn't said anything about dumping its nuclear arsenal.
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The nation, which is celebrating the 68th anniversary of its founding today, declared the test successful after a magnitude 5 earthquake was detected near the test site.
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Since then, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his regime had done all the testing it needed to do, and dismantled at least one test site.
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North Korea's government has rejected a list of South Korean journalists invited to attend the planned dismantlement of a nuclear test site, according to South Korean officials.
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Numerous other news organisations, including Reuters, had also sought to cover the shutdown of the North's nuclear test site but were denied invitations to visit the country.
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The explosion happened offshore of the Nenoksa Missile Test Site, which sits on the White Sea, and local officials reported a spike in radiation after the event.
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The South said at the weekend that the North would invite US and South Korean journalists to watch the dismantling of a nuclear test site in May.
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But unlike international journalists, she is not on the list of people invited this week to witness the destruction of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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In the coming weeks, Kim is expected to invite international observers and media to watch him dismantle the Punggye-ri nuclear test site near the Chinese border.
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What you just saw was the ICBM, fired from the Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, heading for waters south of Alaska.
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In Singapore, Mr. Trump said the North was destroying a major missile-engine test site, but the known sites are still standing, untouched, according to satellite photographs.
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Maralinga Journal MARALINGA, Australia — Maralinga, a barren stretch of land in South Australia's remote western desert, is the country's only former nuclear test site open to tourists.
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Perhaps not coincidentally, Eglin Air Force Base, a major Air Force test site, is situated a short distance from where Lipp's drone is or was apparently flying.
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But the letter was sent on the day North Korea invited U.S. journalists to watch it hand the U.S. a major concession: dismantling its nuclear test site.
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After the North's latest nuclear test, South Korea fired its Hyunmoo-2 short-range ballistic missiles in a drill simulating an attack on the North's test site.
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In the weeks leading up to the meeting, North Korea suspended nuclear and missile tests, released three American hostages and disabled its only known nuclear test site.
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Kim's apparent destruction of his nuclear test site was a genuinely positive step, notes Siegfried Hecker, an expert on the North Korean nuclear program at Stanford University.
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The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 5.3-magnitude seismic event in North Korea on Friday, near a nuclear test site in the northeastern part of the county.
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In their previous study of satellite photos, taken last Sunday, the analysts noted several teams at the test site playing volleyball, a popular sport in the North.
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In October, Japan's Asahi TV reported that as many as 200 North Korean workers may have been killed in a tunnel collapse at the nuclear test site.
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"We built in a lot of redundancies, because we want to do everything possible to protect the payload," said Anthony Pucciarella, director of operations at the test site.
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Asian markets fell after North Korea said it had conducted its fifth nuclear test, hours after seismic monitors detected a blast near the reclusive state's nuclear test site.
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Quayside will be first, and serve as a test site for technology like trash-carry robots and what it calls a "people-first street network," among other plans.
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At that time, North Korea committed "to work toward complete denuclearize of the Korean peninsula" and destroyed some tunnels and buildings at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Still, the heat of the Trinity blast was so intense that it melted the sands at the test site, creating a radioactive, green-colored glass that's called trinitite.
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At that time, North Korea committed "to work toward complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula" and destroyed some tunnels and buildings at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Business Insider reports that the company maintains a customer service outlet in a mall in Kennewick, while the Seattle test site would be at the company's corporate headquarters.
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Following a deadly tunnel collapse at a North Korean nuclear test site, winds may strengthen from the northwest and direct radiation toward northern Japan, according to AccuWeather research.
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The images come hours after a series of explosions demolished a supposed test site, located in the mountains of the country, and was witnessed by invited foreign journalists.
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Trump canceled the June 12 meeting citing Pyongyang's "open hostility,", even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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Earlier this month North Korea said that it will dismantle its northeastern Punggye-ri nuclear test site between May 23 and 25 in the presence of international media.
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North Korea slammed a Japanese TV station's report on Thursday that claimed hundreds of people were crushed to death when tunnels collapsed at its unstable nuclear test site.
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In a statement, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Kim had invited inspectors to visit the Punggye-ri nuclear test site to confirm it had been irreversibly dismantled.
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Kim Jong Un is making every concession and speaking of those concessions, North Korea is now inviting international media to watch their dismantling of their nuclear test site.
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Over the weekend, Mr. Kim announced an end to all nuclear and long-range missile tests and the shutting down of his country's only known nuclear test site.
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Washington (CNN)US spy satellites have detected new activity at North Korea's underground nuclear test site for the first time in several weeks, two US officials told CNN.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said it recorded a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday, described as a "possible explosion," near North Korea's known nuclear test site in the northeast.
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In return for denuclearization, Kim wanted: The test-ban commission's report seeks independent verification of the DPRK's proclaimed demolition of its underground nuclear test site at Punggye-ri.
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The U.S. Geological Survey on Sunday recorded a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that it described as a "possible explosion" near North Korea's known nuclear test site in the northeast.
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Kim vowed to destroy its only known missile test site and agreed to landmark talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-In and, separately, a summit with Trump.
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He said the test site at Punggye-ri in North Hamyong province would more likely be shut down because of the environmental impact sustained to the mountains there.
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Today in Seoul, the head of South Korea's weather agency warned that another powerful blast at the North's nuclear test site could send radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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North Korea said on Saturday it would halt nuclear and missile tests and said it was scrapping its Punggye-ri test site to pursue economic growth and peace.
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He tacked on some other items, including the closure of a prominent nuclear test site and even changing North Korea's time zone to match that of the South.
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"If these reports constitute new activity, the administration should initiate test-site visits allowed by the treaty and hold Russia accountable for any malign behavior," Mr. Markey said.
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They included dismantling a nuclear test site and halting nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, although critics have questioned the practical effect and the extent of those steps.
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" After Mr. Pompeo's visit, Washington announced that Mr. Kim had invited inspectors to visit its Punggye-ri nuclear test site to confirm that "it has been irreversibly dismantled.
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"Inspecting the nuclear test site is a strong sign Pyongyang wants to continue talks — but is not itself a major arms controls step," Mr. Mount said by email.
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SEOUL, South Korea — A small earthquake was detected on Saturday afternoon near North Korea's underground nuclear test site, reviving fears that the country had set off another bomb.
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Kim's pledge to allow inspectors to visit an already dismantled nuclear test site is what he'll cite as a concession to you when in fact it's a distraction.
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Mr. Kim recently announced that North Korea would stop all nuclear and long-range missile tests and shut down its nuclear test site as gestures of good will.
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Hebei, which produces a quarter of China's steel and is responsible for much of the smog drifting over the capital, was the test site for the first probe.
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The 38 North report said that the rugged test site, despite the games, appeared able to conduct a sixth nuclear test at any time upon receiving the order.
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Together with their son, Connor (Zev Haworth), they live in a nice house in the town of Athens, which appears almost as depopulated as a nuclear test site.
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As many as 200 North Korean workers may have been killed in a tunnel collapse at the country's nuclear test site, according to a Japanese news report Tuesday.
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According to Hyperloop Technologies CEO Rob Lloyd, this is the test site where a concept originated by Tesla's Elon Musk, becomes a viable option for high speed transportation.
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In a statement, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Kim had invited inspectors to visit the Punggye-ri nuclear test site to confirm it has been irreversibly dismantled.
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Prior to the weekend, analysts looking at satellite photos of a North Korean nuclear test site had reported that the facility seemed to be gearing up for a test.
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Although the test site appears to be a beige colour on this satellite image, it's actually covered in green crops at the moment that are approximately one metre high.
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The tall trees in the right of this photo blocked the view of the test site so I walked through them and immediately spotted what I was looking for.
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"Late last month, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he was closing down the nuclear test site, saying there "is no reason for us to possess nuclear weapons.
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It just so happens that the coffeehouse sits between two Pokestops, places where players can collect special in-game items, making it the perfect test site for game marketing.
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Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts.
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By September 5th, the CTBTO was ready call it: the "event" started within a 42-square-mile patch of rugged terrain that overlaps with North Korea's nuclear test site.
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We had information on both the size of the wiggles and the yields from the Nevada test site, where we had done virtually all of our underground atomic testing.
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South Korea and international monitoring agencies reported Friday an earthquake near North Korea's northeastern nuclear test site, a strong indication that Pyongyang had detonated its fifth atomic test explosion.
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Despite North Korea's rebuke of the report, experts have previously said the test site could be on the verge of collapse more than a month after the powerful blast.
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"In the past, North Korea resisted U.S. requests to visit the test site and take samples," said David Albright from the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.
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A U.S. official also told Fox News there's "no evidence" North Korea has halted work on missile development, despite dismantling parts of an engine test site in recent weeks.
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Kim did blow up North Korea's only known nuclear testing site on May 24 and razed a missile test site, but those moves haven't severely diminished his nuclear capabilities.
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"As with the rest of the world, North Korea's nuclear proliferation concerns Russia, particularly since the North's nuclear weapons test site sits just 200 miles from Vladivostok," Stratfor explained.
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The North is also seen to be ready to conduct its sixth nuclear test at any time, with movements detected by satellites at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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On Saturday, North Korea pledged to halt nuclear and missile tests, adding that it would abandon its nuclear test site, in order to pursue peace and economic growth instead.
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Kim also said a nuclear test site would be closed and "dismantled" now that the country has learned how to make nuclear weapons and mount warheads on ballistic rockets.
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SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) - North Korea is preparing its Punggye-ri nuclear test site for international inspectors, the Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday, citing South Korea's spy agency.
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"North Korea has announced the dismantling of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, so we assess that they will do preparatory work according to the planned schedule," he said.
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It may seem strange that the closing of a nuclear test site 2628 years ago should play such a prominent role in defining a country's history and global purpose.
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Since the first test, almost a decade ago, the size of the resulting earthquakes from the country's test site have increased, indicating that the devices are becoming increasingly powerful.
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PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - France condemned a nuclear test conducted by North Korea on Friday, hours after seismic monitors detected a blast near the secretive country's nuclear test site.
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The move came after North Korean media reported earlier that the country had blown up tunnels at its nuclear test site, which had raised the possibility of the summit.
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The details: Kim Jong-un explained, "[t]he nuclear test site has done its job," via a statement broadcasted by North Korea's state media, per the New York Times.
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Amazon, the giant e-commerce company, began secretly testing unmanned aircraft this summer at an undisclosed location in Britain (its largest outdoor test site, according to an Amazon executive).
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The MDA launched a target missile launched from Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and an interceptor Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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He said Mr. Kim objected to the skepticism that had greeted those actions in some quarters, such as the suspicion that North Korea could reactivate its nuclear test site.
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It partially took down an engine test site, a rocket launchpad and a rail-mounted building used by engineers to assemble launch vehicles and move them to the launchpad.
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A Pentagon official said that the interceptor, an SM-3 Block IIA missile that is being developed by the Raytheon Company, was launched from a test site in Hawaii.
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Then, he whetted Washington's appetite for negotiations by announcing a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, closing North Korea's only known nuclear test site and releasing three American prisoners.
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"I was in my study when the earthquake began," said Sun Xingjie, an assistant professor at Jilin University in Changchun about 350 miles from the North Korean test site.
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And on Friday, North Korea declined to accept a list of eight South Korean reporters it had invited to watch the closing of its nuclear test site next week.
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He said he had also pushed North Korea on a promise to destroy a missile engine test site and that the United States would like that to happen "soon".
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But when he met with Mr. Moon last month, Mr. Kim rebuffed the skeptics, saying that the test site still had two tunnels where nuclear tests could be conducted.
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Beyond that, China was not invited to send observers to the planned destruction of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea at the end of this month.
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But no seismic tremor emanated on Saturday morning from the North's nuclear test site, where recent satellite photographs have shown what appeared to be preparations for an underground detonation.
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The CEO previously said that Starship could conduct short test flights this year, and he's shared images of a test vehicles being constructed at a test site in Texas.
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" Kim announced on Saturday local time that North Korea will shut down its nuclear test site and suspend long-range missile tests, a move Trump touted as "big progress.
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It was unclear what American forces would strike, and the nuclear test site where the North has conducted its five previous tests would make a hard-to-hit target.
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The official cited signs of possible preparations for a missile launch, based on analysis of satellite imagery of the North's Tongchang-ri missile test site on its west coast.
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On Friday, the group reported that satellite imagery showed no activity at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor complex, or at dismantled facilities at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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North Korea had announced it would publicly shut its nuclear test site next week and also improved the mood for a summit by releasing the three detained Americans last week.
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North Korea conducted its fifth and largest test of a nuclear weapon, according to early indications from geological data that shows a shallow earthquake near the country's usual test site.
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Trump undoubtedly was referencing North Korea&aposs demolition in late May of a nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in a remote area in the northeastern part of the country.
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North Korea announced on Sunday that it would close its main nuclear test site next month but some U.S. officials are skeptical that Pyongyang will give up its nuclear arsenal.
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South Korea responded to the nuclear test with live-fire drills off its eastern coast Monday that were meant to simulate an attack on the North's main nuclear test site.
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Meanwhile, TEB Technology promised to restore the 330-yard-long test site to its original state by the end of last August, according to China's official state news agency Xinhua.
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North Korea begins to dismantle nuclear test site -- but Kim Jong Un can turn elsewhere Hannity: Trump already winning on North Korea U.S. intensifies pressure on Iran , sanctioning central banker.
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That could explain why Kim Jong-un recently promised to shutter it: if the test site is now unusable, that would mean he wasn't actually giving up anything of value.
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Drury painted the partial DNA gene sequence of the bacteria on the gallery wall with dirt from the test site, prompting questions about the risks of radiation to genetic mutation.
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North Korea's official news agency has reported that the country has scheduled the demolition of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site ahead of talks with the United States next month.
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The State Department also said Kim invited inspectors to visit Punggye Ri nuclear test site to confirm it had been "irreversibly dismantled," according to a statement from Spokesperson Heather Nauert.
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U.S. officials have welcomed Kim's recent announcement of a suspension of long-range missile tests and the closing of his nuclear bomb test site but say these steps are reversible.
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The report on the state KCNA website came within hours of reports from various agencies that a large earthquake had been detected near a known North Korean nuclear test site.
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Prospects were boosted on Saturday when Kim announced an end to nuclear and missiles tests, saying North Korea was scrapping its nuclear test site and pursuing economic growth and peace.
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They hit targets off the country's east coast to simulate a strike on North Korea's nuclear test site, according to a statement from the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last week that he was ordering the test site to be shuttered, declaring that North Korea no longer needed to test nuclear weapons.
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The official also cast doubt on Kim's goodwill gesture of destroying a nuclear test site, saying the action could not be verified because international inspectors were not invited to attend.
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North Korea's state media had said before the summit that Pyongyang would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace.
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Last week, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in concluded their third summit, during which Kim promised to allow international observers watch the dismantlement of a missile test site.
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Early Thursday, Trump canceled the June 12 meeting citing Pyongyang's "open hostility," even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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Previously called the Nevada Test Site, the 1,350-square-mile desert laboratory is where the US set off more than 1,000 nuclear weapons, some 921 of them in underground chambers.
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At the moment US intelligence suggests North Korea's longstanding underground nuclear test site at Punggye-ri has been damaged by underground seismic activity and may be unusable in certain sections.
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The North's decision to close the Punggye-ri nuclear test site has generally been seen as a welcome gesture by Kim to set a positive tone ahead of the summit.
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Russia's state weather agency has reportedly said that it found radioactive isotopes in test samples after an accident at a military test site that killed five people earlier this month.
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Phoenix will be the fourth test site for the Alphabet-owned Google X project, leaving two more sites that the company applied to the FCC for yet to be announced.
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Experts are already saying the destruction of a nuclear test site that North Korea demonstrated may have been faked, meaning North Korea is not staying true to its word already.
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ATEL Ventures, which is also part of this round and often provides equipment financing, will be providing the capital for the continued build out of Metalworks and the test site.
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Dr. Sidel was among 139 people arrested, including the astronomer Carl Sagan, during a protest organized by the American Public Health Association at a nuclear test site in Mercury, Nev.
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In 1999, the United States provided $800,000 to pay for a blast equivalent to 1003 tons of dynamite to collapse a tunnel at a former Soviet test site in Kazakhstan.
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On Monday, South Korea's army fired short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast in a simulated attack on North Korea's nuclear test site, its military said in a statement.
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A South Korean military official told NBC News that the first reported quake was artificial, while Yonhap reported the military said it was located near the North's nuclear test site.
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The company has been developing the Starship rocket for the last couple of years, with most of the work being done at the company's test site in Boca Chica, Texas.
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He added that the explosion had happened on a test site and that a satellite had not been damaged, as it was not attached to the rocket that was launched.
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Trump was asked in an interview with Reuters on Monday if North Korea had done anything beyond dismantling a test site to show it was in the process of denuclearizing.
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Since the first test, almost a decade ago, the size of the resulting earthquakes from the country's test site have increased, indicating that the devices are becoming increasingly powerful. 39.
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As North Korea dug tunnels at its nuclear test site last fall, watched by American spy satellites, the Obama administration was preparing a test of its own in the Nevada desert.
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He was heartened by the move to shutter the test site, but he urged North Korea to take more concrete steps going forward, like signing and ratifying the test ban treaty.
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North Korea's last nuclear test in September, 2017, was so powerful it triggered a 6.3 magnitude earthquake and literally moved a mountain at it's now-shuttered Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Geologists at the University of Science and Technology of China have presented evidence suggesting the mountain directly above North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site has collapsed, reports the Associated Press.
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In 2013, Boston Calling was the test site for a secret facial recognition pilot program run by the Boston Police Department, which subjected thousands of unwitting music fans to face surveillance.
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U.S. and South Korean military surveillance assets were closely monitoring the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site on the reclusive state's east coast, said the official, who declined to be identified.
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The North&aposs decision to close the Punggye-ri nuclear test site has generally been seen as a welcome gesture by Kim to set a positive tone ahead of the summit.
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At the Hyperloop One test site, the company talked about transporting people in a Hyperloop by 2021, but little has been revealed about the design or features of the passenger capsules.
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) also detected what it called an "explosion" that it said was 11 kilometers east-northeast of Sungjibaegam in North Korea, near a known nuclear test site.
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Activity at its main Yongbyon nuclear reactor site will be a factor in future talks and Washington will want to see proof of the shutdown of its Punggye-ri test site.
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Punggye-ri is North Korea's main test site, and the country would need to build another in order to continue advancing its bomb technology if the site has actually been destroyed.
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SEOUL, South Korea – Seoul says North Korea has allowed South Korean journalists to join the small group of foreign media being allowed to cover the dismantling of its nuclear test site.
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North Korea on Thursday demolished what it claims to be its nuclear test site, setting off several explosions over the course of a few hours in the presence of foreign journalists.
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North Korea said on Saturday it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, a declaration welcomed by world leaders.
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Four defectors hailing from a place near North Korea's nuclear test site displayed symptoms that could be attributed to radiation exposure, a report commissioned by the South Korean government said Wednesday.
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Test site to be shuttered The international community and Beijing in particular have long been concerned that an accident or radiation leak at the site could have consequences across the border.
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South Korea's presidential office said last month that Kim planned to shut down his nuclear test site in May, following landmark talks between Kim and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in.
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Inspectors could be allowed to witness the dismantlement of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, which North Korea promised to do in the coming days in the presence of international reporters.
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"Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts," Trump tweeted.
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Also, while Kim says now he'll allow international experts to monitor the dismantlement of the sites, he also said that originally about destroying the tunnels at Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Not even those of us in South Korea saw what was coming on Friday morning until European monitors of seismological signals reported a tremor emanating from the Punggye-ri test site.
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North Korea carried out what it said is the demolition of its nuclear test site Thursday, setting off a series of explosions over several hours in the presence of foreign journalists.
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It turns out that the specific nuclear test site Kim said he would shut down — where all of North Korea's nuclear tests have taken place since 2006 — may already be useless.
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"Neither that engine test site nor launch platform would be U.S. priorities," said Lee Ho-ryung, head of North Korea military studies at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses in Seoul.
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Several days before Friday's summit, the North surprised the world by declaring it would dismantle the test site to "transparently guarantee" its dramatic commitment to stop all nuclear and missile tests.
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At the Asean security forum in Singapore over the weekend, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said the North's concessions, like dismantling a missile engine test site, had brought nothing from Washington.
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In 1997, Mr. Gowin began shooting a series of aerial photographs of the Nevada Test Site, where the United States government detonated more than 1,000 nuclear bombs from 1951 to 1992.
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Today, Starhopper provided a more impressive sight when it took off from SpaceX's test site in Boca Chica, Texas, slowly climbing to its target altitude of around 500 feet (150 meters).
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The North was believed to be making preparations for a test launch of a long-range rocket, U.S. officials have said, after activity at its test site was observed by satellite.
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"It's true that shutting down the Punggye-ri test site does not prevent North Korea from ever testing again," said David Wright, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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Nearly as soon as an explosion ripped through the Nenoksa Missile Test Site in northern Russia on Thursday, briefly raising radiation levels in the region, the Kremlin went into crisis mode.
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The missile is expected to land about 1143,800 miles away in the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, which was formerly known as Kwajalein Missile Range, in the Marshall Islands.
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Analysts who examine satellite images of North Korea reported on Wednesday that they had spotted some unexpected activity at the country's nuclear test site: active volleyball games in three separate areas.
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Holding those tests in Japan could crank up tensions in East Asia, so Tokyo would conduct them at a more isolated test site in Hawaii, according to three of the sources.
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Hedge funds are now starting to put together better offers than tech firms, and are streamlining the interview process to a coding test, site visit and lone interview, Mr Roussanov said.
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Nearly as soon as an explosion ripped through the Nenoksa Missile Test Site in northern Russia on Thursday, briefly raising radiation levels in the region, the Kremlin went into crisis mode.
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North Korea's state media has said ahead of the summit that Pyongyang would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace.
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But apart from a freeze on nuclear tests (which actually preceded the Singapore summit), North Korea has only offered symbolic gestures, like publicly blowing up a test site it no longer needed.
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The company, which aims to reduce travel times by operating carbon-fiber pods through nearly airless tubes at close-to supersonic speeds, has demonstrated its technology at its test site in Nevada.
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"First, they sent 'CEUSP U-1987' to the Test Site from Oak Ridge and now they're sending us plutonium from South Carolina," Nevada Representative Dina Titus, a Democrat, said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's National Security Council said on Thursday it was aware of seismic activity on the Korean Peninsula in the vicinity of a known North Korean nuclear test site.
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Per NBC News, some defectors say that radiation emanating from the Punggye-ri test site could be the cause of "ghost disease" ravaging the area, causing sicknesses like leukemia and birth deformities.
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He has already announced several concessions — he released three American prisoners, ordered the closure of his nuclear test site and declared a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests and long-range missile launches.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has asked the United Nations to help verify North Korea's planned shutdown of its nuclear test site, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Tuesday.
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"Although the U.S. should be prepared to accept all concessions Kim is willing to make early on, such as closing the nuclear test site, it must be prepared for a phased approach."
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A week ago, Mr. Kim announced an end to all nuclear and long-range missile tests and the closing of the nuclear test site in mountainous Punggye-ri, in northeast North Korea.
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The test site was designed to mimic an emergency scenario in the aftermath of a storm or some other type of natural disaster with a downed power grid and interrupted communications services.
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North Korean soldiers and their families are currently being treated for radiation exposure following a deadly tunnel collapse at a North Korean nuclear test site last month, according to multiple media reports.
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No officials have confirmed the Japanese TV station's claims, but experts have feared for more than a month that the test site was on the verge of crumbling since the nuclear blast.
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The North surprised the world several days before the summit by declaring it would dismantle its nuclear test site to "transparently guarantee" its dramatic commitment to stop all nuclear and missile tests.
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And when they're not designing at their offices at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the team members are out at the Long Island test site, firing the 3D-printed engine that they've created.
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Related: North Korea Claims It Just Successfully Detonated a Hydrogen Bomb The rumbling started early Wednesday morning when a small earthquake was detected near a known nuclear test site in North Korea.
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Close-up views show the ground waves throwing rocks and other objects into the air, tearing apart test-site structures, sending cliffs tumbling into the sea and opening wide cracks in roads.
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The location of the quake, near a known North Korean nuclear test site, and its seismic characteristics led experts to quickly conclude that North Korea had probably conducted a fourth nuclear test.
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North Korean monitoring service 38 North says satellite images from April 16 show what appears to be "three volleyball games underway at different locations throughout" at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Kim destroyed a nuclear test site hours before Trump canceled the meeting, allowing it to paint the United States as the intransigent party with constituencies that matter to Pyongyang: Beijing and Moscow.
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When that first test bomb was exploded at the Trinity test site in July of 1945, it opened the door to an era of nuclear armament that has never entirely been shut.
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That all changed in 1949, when Russian scientists led by nuclear physics genius Igor Kurchatov detonated a 22-kiloton atomic bomb code-named First Lightning at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
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We're not nuclear experts, so there was no one on site, no outside expert to verify that what North Korea claims it has done, closing its nuclear test site, has actually occurred.
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Reuters reported that the four defectors are among 30 former residents of North Korea's Kilju county, which includes the nuclear test site Punggye-ri, that South Korea's government has examined since October.
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The test site at Punggye-Ri was to be dismantled, he'd announced earlier this year, because North Korea had accomplished its nuclear goals and no longer needed to keep conducting missile launches.
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You and the South Koreans reported that Kim is closing down a nuclear test site, and now there's news that they may invite South Korean and American experts journalists to witness it.
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Virginia Tech is also working to set up a test site outside Blacksburg, Va. The University of Michigan has already established a 32-acre autonomous-car test facility in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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BEIJING, May 22 (Reuters) - A group of roughly two dozen journalists from Western and Chinese news organisations departed for North Korea on Tuesday to witness the closure of its nuclear test site.
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And apart from releasing a trio of US prisoners and staging what most experts believe is a public relations stunt by dismantling a nuclear test site, Kim has offered no meaningful concessions.
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In May, North Korea invited international journalists to witness the destruction of at least three nuclear tunnels, observation buildings, a metal foundry and living quarters at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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Trump called off the planned June 12 summit meeting with the North Korean leader even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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In a sign of goodwill, North Korea last month also demolished tunnels and buildings at its nuclear test site in the country&aposs remote northeast and provided rare access to foreign journalists.
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President Trump thanked North Korea on Saturday for closing a nuclear test site in the northeastern part of the country calling the decision "a very smart and gracious gesture" in a tweet.
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The release appeared to signal an effort by Kim to improve the mood for the summit and followed a recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut a nuclear bomb test site.
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Also on Friday, South Korea's meteorological authorities said that they detected a small quake near the North's underground nuclear test site, but that it was not caused by a man-made explosion.
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The other ad by the Brindisi campaign featured his two young children, who talked about the "cool jobs" he had helped create, like positions at a test site for drones in Rome.
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The USGS official said the tremors had been in the vicinity of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, where North Korea conducted its sixth and largest underground nuclear test on Sept. 3.
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In July, after the Singapore summit between Kim and Trump, satellite imagery indicated the North has begun dismantling the engine test site in Tongchang-ri, but without allowing outsiders access for verification.
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Disarmament experts have raised many such scenarios after North Korea said over the weekend that it would use explosives to collapse the tunnels of its Punggye-ri nuclear test site next week.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's decision to close its nuclear test site and suspend missile tests is a "meaningful progress" for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, South Korea's presidential office said on Saturday.
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That limits the exposure of frontline workers to the virus, says Lee Eun-sook, a surgeon volunteering at the test site, and means patients aren't able to contaminate a public health facility.
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The Kusong test site was being closely monitored by missile experts because North Korea launched its first solid-fuel midrange ballistic missile, known as Pukguksong-2, from there in February last year.
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"I am a believer in dialogue, but I also know that dialogue is possible when we have a strong national defense," Mr. Moon was quoted as saying from the missile test site.
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But the president reacted more favorably early Friday evening when Mr. Kim announced that North Korea no longer needed to test nuclear weapons or missiles and would close a nuclear test site.
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But Thursday's reported demolition at the test site was the first concrete step North Korea had taken under Mr. Kim toward what Washington had been hoping would be a complete nuclear dismantlement.
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The hope has been that Hanford can at least be a test site for developing decommissioning technologies needed to cleanse the nation's civilian reactors, an undertaking that will be nearly as expensive.
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Before purchasing the new land, Uber had considered setting up a 400-acre test site in South Fayette Township in Pittsburgh but ultimately rejected the plan, the Pittsburgh Business Times also reported.
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The South Koreans also said Kim plans to shutter the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States.
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In the North Pacific, rising seas threaten to inundate the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, a strategic location for monitoring and tracking missile threats from North Korea, Russia and China.
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Commercial satellite images have also found evidence of landslides near the test site, increasing fears of a further release of radioactive fallout if the North were to conduct another nuclear test there.
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She explained that the US was likely in the process of flying as close as possible to the test site to detect radionuclides, which could indicate what type of bomb was used.
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Kim Jong Un now says he's willing to dismantle a key missile test site and permanently destroy North Korea's main nuclear facility — but only if the U.S. and Donald Trump play ball.
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North Korea has not tested a nuclear device or ballistic missile since last year, and has said it has shuttered its main nuclear test site, with plans to dismantle several more facilities.
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"Been here 1 week, have yet to develop the promised super powers of spider man and the incredible hulk," said a post from user David Day, who gave the test site one star.
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The helicopter attack that left at least two hurt took place at a test site near Luga, the same one that Vladimir Putin himself was at just yesterday to observe the war games.
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Late last night, North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, triggering a mini, human-made earthquake near the test site and causing the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting.
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For the next year, Tome will be working at the Mcity autonomous vehicle test site at the University of Michigan to develop software that can go into bike and car accessories and apps.
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Just before Mr Trump pulled out of the summit, it dismantled its nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in the presence of reporters from five countries including, after initial hiccups, from South Korea.
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And Nevada is a region of young geology and seismic waves are absorbed, or dampened down, as they pass beneath the Nevada test site — whereas Soviet explosions were overwhelmingly in old, strong rocks.
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One is thought still to be at the Kapustin Yar test site near Volgograd, the other at a base in the central military district that puts it in range of targets across Europe.
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A U.S. think tank reported last month that satellite imagery of North Korea's main nuclear test site indicates that Pyongyang could be in the final stages of preparations for a sixth nuclear test.
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The intelligence officials told NBC News that the U.S. has positioned two destroyers capable of shooting Tomahawk cruise missiles in the region, one just 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site.
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U.S. officials said last week that North Korea was believed to be making preparations for a test launch of a long-range rocket, after activity at its test site was observed by satellite.
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Satellite images show North Korea may have resumed tunnel excavation at its main nuclear test site, similar to activity seen before the January test, a U.S. North Korea monitoring website reported last week.
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" Another lawmaker who attended the Monday briefing, Lee Cheol-woo, told reporters the NIS informed them that Pyongyang had dug extra tunnels at the nuclear test site and could explode another one "anytime.
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A small quake was detected early on Friday near the North's nuclear test site, South Korea's weather agency said, but unlike quakes associated with nuclear tests, it did not appear to be manmade.
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The new test site is designed to host intersections, traffic lights, roadway merges, pedestrian pathways and other features of public roads, all reconfigurable to simulate a wide range of real-world driving scenarios.
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It said commercial satellite images of the West Portal of the Punggye-ri test site taken on Tuesday showed two small ore carts on a track crossing a road from a tunnel entrance.
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Surveillance assets of the South Korean and U.S. militaries are closely monitoring the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site on its east coast, the official who declined to be identified said by telephone.
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Earlier Monday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said the North had the ability to conduct another nuclear test anytime at its Punggye-ri test site, where all five underground nuclear tests have occurred.
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Reuters: Western and Chinese news organizations arrived in North Korea today to witness the closure of a nuclear test site, an indication that the pledged North Korea shutdown proceeds amid renewed diplomatic uncertainty.
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"In the last few months the situation around the peninsula has stabilised somewhat, thanks in large part to North Korea's initiatives of stopping rocket testing and closing its nuclear test site," Ushakov said.
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The launch of the Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile happened at a well-known test site outside Semnan, about 140 miles east of Tehran, according to the report, which cited unnamed U.S. officials.
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The news came as North Korea made a show of dismantling a nuclear test site, but also on the heels of some sharp words from the North Korean government about America denuclearization demands.
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North Korea has not tested a ballistic missile or nuclear weapon for nearly a year, and has said it has shuttered its main nuclear test site with plans to dismantle several more facilities.
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During the time between Singapore and Hanoi, the North Koreans engaged in some random acts of denuclearization, including shutting down a nuclear test site and doing the same to an engine testing facility.
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The South Korean Unification Ministry, which handles dealings with the North, said on Friday North Korea had "declined to accept" the list of journalists submitted by the South for the test site dismantling.
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The North canceled a promised meeting, assailed South Korea's participation in military exercises, refused to invite South Korean reporters to the closure of its nuclear test site and demanded repatriation of North Koreans.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly told South Korean President Moon Jae-in "that he would carry out the closing of the nuclear test site in May," reports AFP citing Moon's spokesman.
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After studying satellite images of the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site, they concluded that the mile-high mountain could withstand a nuclear explosion of up to roughly 20 times the Hiroshima blast.
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North Korea decided last month to end all nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests and close its only known nuclear test site, located in Punggye-ri in the northeast of the country.
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As for nuclear weapons, he essentially declared that mission accomplished, saying North Korea no longer needed to test long-range missiles or atomic bombs and would close its only known nuclear test site.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, announced early Saturday that his country no longer needed to test nuclear weapons or long-range missiles and would close a nuclear test site.
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"Regardless, satellite imagery continues to indicate that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site appears able to conduct a sixth nuclear test at any time once the order is received from Pyongyang," they concluded.
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The question is whether Beijing has enough leverage to avert a detonation at the North's atomic test site in Punggye-ri, where analysts say preparations for a blast appear to have recently resumed.
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But at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, in the mountainous wilds of the North, teams of players that Sunday were engaged in a series of volleyball games, according to the image analysts.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea welcomes North Korea's schedule to dismantle its nuclear test site ahead of a historic summit between the North and the United States, the South's presidential office said on Sunday.
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US officials said last week that North Korea was believed to be making preparations for a test launch of a long-range rocket, after activity at its test site was observed by satellite.
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"There is no reason to conclude that the Punggye-ri test site is no longer functional," said one U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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Kim explicitly hinted at this in an April speech in which he declared that "the nuclear test site has done its job" and suggested he will begin putting in more work on the economy.
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North Korea claimed it has closed a major nuclear test site and has promised to dismantle more facilities as part of an agreement between its ruler Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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A senior White House official said the North had reneged on its promises ahead of the summit, including a pledge to allow international inspectors to monitor its explosive destruction of its nuclear test site.
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To do so, scientists have primarily studied seismic waveforms, which at best offer rough estimates of the bomb's strength and impact on Mount Mantap, the location of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
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It was well on the way to opening its test site in the U.K. in December 2014, and its Prime Air division started hiring aerospace engineers, looking specifically for people with experience flying drones.
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Given the power of that blast, it's entirely possible that that test could have rendered the test site useless, meaning that it's possible that the country isn't giving up anything by publicly dismantling it.
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Isolated North Korea's offer to scrap the test site was seen as a key concession in months of easing tension between Pyongyang and its long-time bitter rivals, South Korea and the United States.
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Kim on Thursday made good on his promise to demolish North Korea&aposs nuclear test site, which was formally closed in a series of huge explosions as a group of foreign journalists looked on.
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Days before the meeting Mr Kim had declared an end to his testing of long-range missiles and the closure of his nuclear test site at Punggye-ri in the north of the country.
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Self-driving cars in Canada have a new designated test site in the province of Ontario: Stratford, which is also home to the annual Stratford Festival, an event celebrating Shakespearean and other stage plays.
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The North suspended its missile and nuclear tests and shut down its nuclear test site, and recent satellite photos indicated the country had also begun dismantling key facilities at its main rocket launch site.
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There are also indications that North Korea might be preparing for yet another underground nuclear test, though one official said that specific signs of preparation at the test site itself are not yet visible.
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At the summit Kim announced he'd agree to allow independent inspectors to verify the destruction of a missile test site at Tongchang-ri — a site the regime has been destroying since at least July.
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The North has made a number of overtures in recent weeks to ease tensions ahead of the June 12 summit, including releasing three American prisoners and announcing plans to dismantle a nuclear test site.
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Reports from South Korean media suggest that new activity has been reported at North Korean missile sites since the summit ended and that some planned deconstruction of a nuclear test site had been reversed.
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Moon, who was in Pyongyang to attend a summit with Kim, said North Korea will dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers, according to The Associated Press.
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" At their third summit this week, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that North Korea agreed to dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of "international experts.
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Pyongyang has said it will cease nuclear weapon and ballistic missile tests ahead of the talks, and announced last month that it would shutter a nuclear test site in a show of good faith.
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A deadly explosion at a missile test site last week appears to have been caused by a failed test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile, one Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about last year.
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In this July 6, 1945, file photo, scientists and workmen rig the world's first atomic bomb to raise it up onto a 100 foot tower at the Trinity bomb test site near Alamagordo, N.M.
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North Korea demolished its nuclear test site using a series of explosions as international journalists looked on ahead of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's scheduled meeting with President Trump next month, AP reports.
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The company opened its first drive-through test site Thursday afternoon in Massachusetts, but it is limited to police, firefighters, nurses and other first responders who are referred by government or public health officials.
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In Liverpool, New York, Isaac Budmen and Stephanie Keefe were printing more than 903 face shields for workers at a coronavirus test site in Syracuse this week, according to The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
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Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the issue, that North Korea's nuclear test site collapsed after Pyongyang's sixth atomic test in September, possibly killing more than 200 people.
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Televised explosions to destroy tunnels at North Korea's only known nuclear test site two weeks ago were likely more for show than substance, according to Defense Department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Analysts peering at satellite images of North Korea after the latest nuclear test reported Tuesday that they had spotted many landslides and wide disturbances at the country's test site, in the North's mountainous wilds.
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In May, foreign journalists took 463 hours to travel roughly 415 km (258 miles) by train to watch the demolition of North Korea's nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, averaging just 35 km/h.
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Trump indicated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed North Korean state media reports that the country would halt nuclear and missile tests and shutter a nuclear test site in the country's north region.
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The announcement came hours after a large earthquake that appeared to be man-made was detected near the North's known nuclear test site, indicating that the reclusive country had conducted its sixth nuclear test.
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It is unclear if the mountainous Punggye-ri test site, where North Korea has conducted all six of its nuclear tests, was dismantled in a way that would allow it to be used again.
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The rocket took off from a test site in rural Texas on Wednesday and soared more than 60 miles into the upper atmosphere, across the boundary that is widely considered the edge of space.
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It said it had already taken enough confidence-building steps, such as the test moratorium, the shutting down of its underground nuclear test site and its return of American remains from the Korean War.
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North Korea says it has taken steps to halt its nuclear development, including placing a moratorium on missile and nuclear bomb testing, demolishing its only known nuclear test site, and dismantling a rocket facility.
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The U.S.-based North Korea monitoring group 38 North said in an analysis at the end of last week there had been no sign of any activity toward dismantling of any missile test site.
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On Saturday, Musk is set to host an event at the Texas test site to give the most thorough update in two years about SpaceX's interplanetary travel ambitions — plans that have undergone significant revisions.
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Now home to roughly 3,000 people, it was once a Soviet nuclear test site where the 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, or "king of bombs"—the largest ever man-made explosion—was detonated in 1961.
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South Korea's defense ministry said there were no indications of activities at the North's nuclear test site or its long-range rocket station, but that North Korea continued to maintain readiness to conduct nuclear tests.
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PUNGGYE-RI, North Korea – North Korea carried out what it said is the demolition of its nuclear test site Thursday, setting off a series of explosions over several hours in the presence of foreign journalists.
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Obama had been briefed on board Air Force One by National Security Adviser Susan Rice about reported seismic activity near North Korea's nuclear test site earlier on Friday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
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The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a SM-3 Block IIA missile was launched from an Aegis Ashore test site in Hawaii, but failed to hit another missile launched from an aircraft.
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The calls for a response come as spy satellites detected new activity at North Korea's underground nuclear test site for the first time in several weeks, according to two US officials who spoke to CNN.
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A similar trial project in Florida was given the federal greenlight last year, but local voters rejected the plan, citing concerns about the impacts on the local environment, which left researchers without a test site.
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Seoul's National Intelligence Service (NIS) told South Korean lawmakers at a closed door parliamentary session that it has detected signs of North Korea preparing for another nuclear test at its Punggye-ri underground test site.
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"The U.S. doesn't intend to lift the sanctions while the only [denuclearization] step North Korea wants to take now is Yongbyon's dismantling," the analyst told the AP, referring to a North Korean nuclear test site.
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Russia told the residents of Nyonoksa, a town near the military test site where a failed weapons test last week resulted in a deadly explosion, to evacuate Tuesday, but then the order was mysteriously canceled.
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Then, on Thursday, a missile engine at a military test site in "Russia really pushes an infrastructure that is old to try to keep up or gain parity with the United States," Edmonds told INSIDER.
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The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North's sparsely populated northeast were centered on three tunnels at the underground site and a number of buildings in the surrounding area.
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The institute estimated that roughly 340,000 tonnes of lithium oxide were deposited in a test site of 7.2 square km, indicating the amount of lithium oxide in the entire area could exceed 5 million tonnes.
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Earlier this week, an American research group reported that North Korea had begun dismantling its main missile-engine test site, which could be another sign that a thaw is taking place between the two countries.
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North Korea has declined to accept a list of South Korean journalists hoping to observe the closure of its nuclear test site, South Korea said, raising new questions about the North's commitment to reducing tension.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two minor tremors were detected on Saturday from near North Korea's nuclear test site and were probably aftershocks from the country's massive nuclear test in early September, a U.S. Geological Survey official said.
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Mr. Kim visited the rocket engine test site in 2017 when engineers there successfully tested a new high-thrust engine, which was believed to have powered intercontinental ballistic missiles that the North launched months later.
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"Considering the state of readiness at the nuclear test site, it's our view that a nuclear test can happen at any time," South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee told a briefing on Wednesday.
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Another major concern for the Chinese government is the fears of residents in the northeast of the country about nuclear contamination from North Korea's test site at Punggye-ri, not far from the Chinese border.
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One of the journalists, Will Ripley from CNN, read the text of Mr. Trump's withdrawal letter to their official North Korean chaperones on the return train ride from the remote nuclear test site, Punggye-ri.
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Last month, two Los Alamos scientists argued that the rocky North Korean test site the United States monitors could confine explosions of up to 282 kilotons — roughly 20 times as strong as the Hiroshima blast.
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The volleyball games, played in the middle of that international crisis, were probably intended to send a message, analysts said, as the North Koreans are aware that the nuclear test site is under intense scrutiny.
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Strictly speaking, we don't know it was a nuclear explosion — but it was a nuclear weapon–size explosion at the North Korean test site on the hour that they say it was a nuclear explosion.
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The cancellation came just hours after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its main nuclear test site, which Pyongyang said was proof of its commitment to end nuclear testing.
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South Korea's defense ministry said there were no indications of activities at the North's nuclear test site or its long-range rocket station, but that North Korea continues to maintain readiness to conduct nuclear tests.
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Kim Min-ki of the ruling Democratic Party told reporters that intelligence officials had observed what they believed to be preparations for possible inspections at Punggye-ri nuclear test site and the Sohae Satellite launching ground.
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The commercial website 38 North recently posted satellite imagery showing continuing activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site indicating the area was ready for an underground test as soon as one is ordered by Kim.
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Trump canceled the June 12 meeting "based on the tremendous anger and open hostility" in Kim's recent statement, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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Bermudez offered two possible explanations - that the test site could be going into "a standby mode" or that the games were intended to confuse observers, given North Korea knows that Punggye-ri is under constant observation.
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The U.S.-based North Korea monitoring group 38 North said in an analysis at the end of last week there had been no sign of any activity toward dismantling Sohae or any other missile test site.
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The 38 North group, run by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, said there was activity at all three tunnel complexes at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site involving a large vehicle and personnel.
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But it's hard to get accurate information in or out of North Korea, so the world has been trying to reconstruct what exactly blew up and where from the vibrations that radiated from the test site.
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Burgmann and his colleagues at UC Berkeley, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and other institutions turned to satellites that captured images of the test site from space in the days before and after the nuclear test.
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The target was launched from a test site in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, more than 4,000 miles (6,400 km) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where the interceptors were launched, the agency said.
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He capped weeks of diplomacy with Saturday's announcement of an end to nuclear and long-range missile tests and the shutting down of a nuclear test site, saying he would now focus on rebuilding the economy.
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Satellite imagery of North Korea's main nuclear test site taken over the weekend indicates that Pyongyang could be in the final stages of preparations for a sixth nuclear test, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called off a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site.
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The first big test of whether things are truly off track will come this week, when North Korea is due to destroy the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, in full view of international observers and journalists.
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The country's weekend statement, as reported by the state-run Korean Central News Agency following a plenary session of the ruling Worker's Party's top officials, also indicated the looming closure of a main nuclear test site.
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Along these lines, North Korea invited journalists to observe the destruction of tunnels leading to a nuclear weapons test site, promised to dismantle a missile test facility, and began removal of landmines along the demilitarized zone.
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North Korea had invited a limited number of journalists from South Korea and other countries to witness what it said will be the closing of its only nuclear weapons test site at Punggye-ri next week.
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The North Korean offer to scrap the test site has been seen as major concession in months of easing tension between it, on the one hand, and South Korea and the United States on the other.
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What everybody is worried about is that Trump is going to accept a bad deal — they give us a single test site and dismantle a few other things, and in return, they get a peace agreement.
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It said North Korea had so far taken the "irreversible" action of destroying its underground nuclear test site, while the United States had taken only the "reversible" action of suspending joint military exercises with South Korea.
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In May, when the North destroyed its only known nuclear test site in Punggye-ri in the northeast, journalists were allowed to film the operation from a distance, but no nuclear experts were invited to watch.
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Known as "Plutonium Mountain," the Soviet Union's Semipalatinsk Test Site covered an area roughly the size of Belgium and was the scene of 456 nuclear tests during the Cold War, including at least 340 underground blasts.
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In the 19503s, Las Vegans looking to decompress would head to Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street, order an "Atomic cocktail" and head to the roof to watch mushroom clouds rising from the nearby Nevada Test Site.
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Since no weapons experts were present Thursday, it is not even clear whether North Korea destroyed all of the tunnels at the test site, or if the explosions would prevent the site from being used again.
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The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation later issued a statement saying that if asked it would support any verification activities to ensure North Korea's only known nuclear test site is closed permanently.
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On Friday, supplier Huber + Suhner recommended its customers suspend the operation of all charging stations with its high-power charging system after a short-circuit was reported at a charging station on a test site in Germany.
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In past instances of Pyongyang's nuclear testing, one of the first signs that an underground explosion has happened is seismic activity picked up by the US Geological Survey in the location of the North Korean test site.
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Photo: APNorth Korea's infamous nuclear test site, a facility in Punggye-ri in Kilju County, has long been reported to maintain the standards one might expect for a pariah government low on everything but zeal and weaponry.
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Photo: APAt least four defectors from North Korea's Kilju County, the location of the pariah government's notorious Punggye-ri nuclear test site, have tested positive for symptoms of radiation exposure, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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The evidence North Korea might be about to launch a test: Experts report Pyongyang is primed to launch its sixth nuclear test from its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site within days, based on satellite images captured Wednesday.
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"We know from other news reports that there has been an accident at the nuclear test site, and the situation that North Korea may have anticipated with radiation being contained within North Korea has changed," Myers said.
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The explosions at the nuclear test site deep in the mountains of the North&aposs sparsely populated northeast were centered on three tunnels into the underground site and a number of observation towers in the surrounding area.
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RELATED: North Korea claims missile test success New satellites images from the 38 North website reveal activity at North Korea's nuclear test site, showing a canopy has been erected to block the view of US spy satellites.
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There has been increased activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea, leading most experts on the region to believe that we'll see the country's sixth and seventh ever nuclear tests by next month.
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Last Sunday, as much of the country tuned into the Super Bowl, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and a crew of engineers were gathered in McGregor, Texas, the small city where the company maintains a rocket test site.
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North Korea is likely to conduct its fifth nuclear test in the near future, possibly before its party congress in early May, South Korean government sources said based on their reading of activity around the test site.
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Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korean journalists may not be allowed to enter North Korea to cover the closure of Pyongyang's nuclear test site, authorities in Seoul said, less than a week after they were reportedly invited.
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Journalists, including a team from CNN, were invited to watch the North Koreans blow up the tunnels and some of the buildings at the Punggye-ri test site last month but no nuclear experts witnessed the event.
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The explosion from the sixth test was large enough for residents of the Chinese border city of Yanji, 200 km (125 miles) north of North Korea's nuclear test site, to feel the ground shake beneath their feet.
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Kim's regime has shuttered a missile engine testing facility; destroyed the entrances to its nuclear test site; and promised to close the Yongbyon nuclear facility, where North Korea is believed to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons.
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Since the North Koreans have said they don't need the test site anymore because they've already completed their nuclear mission, it's entirely plausible that the North Koreans could use the "closing" ceremony to celebrate their nuclear achievements.
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North Korea refrained from carrying out any nuclear or missile tests in 2018 and has taken symbolic steps toward denuclearization, such as shuttering a missile test facility and destroying parts of its nuclear test site, Punggye-ri.
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When he met with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Pyongyang last month, Mr. Kim also offered to demolish key missile development facilities, including a missile engine test site, and invite outside experts to watch.
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Mr. Kim visited the Sohae missile engine test site in March last year when engineers there successfully tested a new high-thrust engine that was believed to have powered intercontinental ballistic missiles the North launched months later.
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The blast was so powerful that the first tremor was followed by a second, weaker one minutes later, which the United States Geological Survey called a "collapse," probably a cave-in at the North's underground test site.
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The diplomatic pressure from China to stop a sixth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri test site is intended to keep the North Koreans from making advances in warhead miniaturization and the design of a hydrogen bomb.
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Australia is a popular test site for market developments because of its well-established financial infrastructure and the familiarity of international investors with the Australian dollar, which is one of the most-traded currencies in the world.
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Pyongyang says it has destroyed its main nuclear and missile engine test site, and has halted atomic and ballistic missile tests, but U.S. officials and analysts believe it is continuing to work on its weapons plans clandestinely.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The underground nuclear test site that North Korea has pledged to dismantle remains usable in spite of damage from a previous blast, and its closure could easily be reversed, U.S. intelligence officials said on Friday.
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Photo: Getty ImagesThe government of North Korea has set official dates to decommission its sole known nuclear test site, specifically between the dates of May 23rd and 25th, Reuters reported the country's state media as saying on Saturday.
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Finally, Reuters noted North Korea said it would welcome international journalists to view the destruction of the test site, but they have not yet done the same for international experts who could verify the facility was properly destroyed.
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TV Asahi said it received the tip from unnamed North Korean sources who are familiar with the situation, and that the incident happened during construction of an underground tunnel at the nuclear test site in northeast North Korea.
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"The North has agreed to permanently shut down an engine test site and missile launch pad in Dongchang-ri, in the presence of experts from the countries concerned," South Korean president Moon Jae-in said in a statement.
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What's next: The project will be developed on the Bay of Fundy at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy, a pre-permitted and grid-connected test site that also comes with a 15-year feed-in tariff.
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"It's a tough competition but we should make sure that it is done in a way that is fair," Neuenschwander told Reuters at the opening of a new German Aerospace Center rocket test site in Lampoldshausen, near Stuttgart.
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South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Monday that North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, citing South Korean government sources who said the North may use a previously unused tunnel at its mountainous test site.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it would immediately suspend nuclear and missile tests, scrap its nuclear test site and instead pursue economic growth and peace, ahead of planned summits with South Korea and the United States.
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The recent results showing North Koreans to have possibly been exposed to radiation dovetails with stories North Koreans who lived near the test site have told the media about friends and family members falling sick from mysterious illnesses.
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So far, signs seem positive that the plans will go ahead: Journalists, including a CNN crew, left Beijing for the North Korean city of Wonsan Tuesday, from where they will head by train to the nuclear test site.
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Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain "alive and well" at the Punggye-ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.
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The North Koreans are also expected to blow up the tunnels at their nuclear test site in the coming days -- a promise Kim made when he met with South Korea's Moon Jae-in at the end of April.
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The mock target was launched from Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific and the interceptors were fired from underground silos at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, according to a Pentagon statement.
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The president's tweet follows North Korea's announcement that it would dismantle the test site by the end of May, ahead of a planned summit between Trump and the country's leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12.
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China may also be interested in gaining access to Rongelap Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands, as a means to keep tabs on the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Test Site at the remote but strategically located Kwajalein Atoll.
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On Saturday Kim Jong Un asserted that his regime no longer needed to test its weapons capabilities and that it would be abandoning a test site in the north that had been the location of several nuclear tests.
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Why it matters: This is a dramatic change in tone from North Korea, which recently released three U.S. prisoners and began dismantling a nuclear test site as part of efforts to lay the groundwork for talks with Trump.
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The two-term congressman said he had already stocked his residence with provisions and had taken efforts to self-quarantine but had occasionally gone out to do his job, including checking out a new drive-through test site.
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The program's failings were on display as recently as last month, when, during a test off the Hawaiian coast, an interceptor missile launched from a test site in Kauai failed to hit its target, an incoming dummy missile.
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And in 1990, it opened its Lop Nur test site to Pakistan and secretly let the country test its first nuclear bomb there, according to "The Nuclear Express," a book by two veterans of the American nuclear program.
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While President Moon Jae-in watched, the weapon, a type of Hyunmoo-2 ballistic missile, blasted off from a test site in Taean, a coastal county southwest of Seoul, the capital, the president's office said in a statement.
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In 1966, the Chinese placed a live nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile, and fired it across the country to China's test site in the western desert, where it exploded with a force of more than 10 kilotons.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The moment had been portrayed by North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, as a show of good faith ahead of his meeting with President Trump: the destruction of North Korea's only known nuclear test site.
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The implication is we would target their [nuclear] test site, we would target every other location we presume they might have nuclear materials or nuclear weapons hidden — and North Korea, lord knows, has lots of mountains and caves.
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The U.S. ride sharing firm had previously chosen Dubai as the first test site outside the United States for its UberAIR service but reopened its request for proposals last month after launch delays in the Middle Eastern city.
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But little is known about the bomb, which was detonated at its underground Punggye-ri test site, and U.S. officials stressed more information was needed to verify North Korea's claims that it had achieved two-stage thermonuclear bomb capabilities.
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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake detected near a known nuclear test site signaled that North Korea had probably conducted a fourth nuclear test, and that is what state TV told its audience, in the reverential tones saved for historical events.
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Several days before Friday's historic summit between Moon and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, the North had promised to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site to "transparently guarantee" its dramatic commitment to stop all nuclear and missile tests.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. experts who have been forecasting an imminent North Korean nuclear test said on Tuesday they were surprised when they viewed their latest satellite images of the country's nuclear test site and saw volleyball games under way.
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North Korea agreed to dismantle a missile test site — in front of international observers — and Moon said in a press conference that the North would permanently dismantle its Nyongbyon nuclear site if the US took corresponding action in response.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - About two dozen journalists from Western and Chinese news organizations arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to witness the closure of its nuclear test site, an indication that the shutdown will go ahead amid renewed diplomatic uncertainty.
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It's a popular sport in the communist nation of North Korea, and according to 38 North, a service that monitors the secretive country, these pictures appear to show volleyball games taking place at a North Korean nuclear test site.
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The target missile launched from Reagan Test Site Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific — nearly 5,000 miles from Los Angeles — and the interceptor was fired from an underground silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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The previous offer for S. Kidman by two Chinese companies, Genius Link Asset and Shanghai Pengxin, had raised red flags because Kidman's Anna Creek cattle station in South Australia state is close to an Australian military rocket test site.
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The regime appeared to destroy at least three nuclear tunnels, observation buildings, a metal foundry and living quarters at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site on Thursday, in a process observed by invited international journalists including CNN's Will Ripley.
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It's conceivable that Kim may be realizing, as North Korea invited journalists to watch the destruction of a nuclear test site Tuesday, exactly what the kind of aggressive verification measures the US is demanding would mean for his country.
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During the test, the parachutes didn't fully open and the sled hit the ground at "a higher than expected velocity," according to the spokesperson, adding that no one was hurt and no property damage occurred at the test site.
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Moon said North Korea will dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers, and that Kim had agreed to dismantle a nuclear complex on the condition that the United States takes corresponding steps.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has declined to accept a list of South Korean journalists hoping to observe the closure of its nuclear test site, South Korea said on Friday, raising new questions about the North's commitment to reducing tension.
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Last week, Kim Jong-un set the stage for upcoming summits with South Korea and the U.S. by announcing the suspension of North Korea's nuclear and long-range missile tests and the closure of its northern nuclear test site.
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What happened: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced the country will stop conducting nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles starting April 21, and shut down a nuclear test site in the north side of the country.
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When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, on Sunday, Mr. Pompeo said North Korea agreed to let outside inspectors confirm that the country had permanently dismantled its only known nuclear test site.
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While Mr. Kim has blown up entrances to a nuclear test site and appeared to start dismantling a test stand for missile engines, he has not allowed in any inspectors to determine whether the actions were simply for show.
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"At the test site of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Arkhangelsk region, when testing a liquid propulsion system, an explosion occurred and the product ignited," the defense ministry told the Russian news agency TASS, in a statement.
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Pyongyang has also test-fired a new weapon, started rebuilding a missile test site it had previously begun dismantling, demanded Mike Pompeo's removal from nuclear talks and issued a year-end deadline for the U.S. to meet its terms.
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On their way from the country's underground nuclear test site in northeast North Korea to Pyongyang, the technicians had been cheered by people who poured out to see them passing by, the country's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
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"Regardless, satellite imagery continues to indicate that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site appears able to conduct a sixth nuclear test at any time once the order is received from Pyongyang," 38 North said in an analysis on Friday.
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"Significant tunneling" excavation is underway at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site and shows the regime's continued efforts to maintain the site for potential future nuclear testing, a think tank specializing in tracking North Korean activities reported Thursday.
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The eight South Koreans arrived in Wonsan on Wednesday, where they were forced to leave their radiation detectors, satellite phones and Bluetooth mouses before they all set off for the test site, according to South Korean media pool reports.
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Trump said after his first summit with Kim in Singapore last June that Kim had promised to dismantle the Sohae test site, a pledge the North Korean leader reiterated and expanded on at a summit with Moon in September.
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Taking part in tests convened by NASA and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Project Wing conducted trials of its own drone traffic control platform at Virginia Tech, where the FAA has set up a test site for flying drones.
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U.S.-North Korea analysts got a surprise when poring over the latest satellite photos from North Korea's nuclear test site: they saw 3 locations where North Koreans were playing volleyball games instead of engaging in nuclear test preparations, per Reuters.
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This is the first time the LA-based company has let any media in to see its test site, and as we walk around one end of the tube, I get the full impression of its length for the first time.
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On Friday, Seoul said North Korea had refused to accept a list of South Korean journalists who planned to observe the closure of the North's nuclear weapons test site at at Punggye-ri next week, backtracking on an earlier invitation.
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Appropriately, he describes himself as a "nuclear archeologist," conducting interviews, sourcing documents from public archives, drawing measurements from photos, and even conducting test site digs on public land—all in service of creating an exact replica of the atom bomb.
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"In view of the research finding that the North Korea nuclear test site at Mantapsan has collapsed, it is necessary to continue to monitor any leakage of radioactive materials that may have been caused by the collapse," the scientists wrote.
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A spokeswoman for Severodvinsk, a city of 185,000 near the test site in the Arkhangelsk region, was quoted in a statement on the municipal website as saying that a "short-term" spike in background radiation was recorded at noon Thursday.
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SEOUL, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An increase in activity at North Korea's nuclear test site could signal preparations for a new test or a collection of data from its last one, a U.S.-based monitoring group said on Friday, citing satellite images.
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Officials with the United States Geologic Service detected a magnitude 6.3 earthquake from North Korea's Pyunggye-ri nuclear test site, which could indicate that such a test has taken place, although additional testing will be required to verify the country's claims.
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"The radar information really seems to help create a more accurate picture of what happened at the test site," says David Albright, president of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security, who was not involved in the study.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will invite South Korean reporters from one news agency and from one television broadcaster to observe the dismantling of a nuclear test site between May 23 and May 25, South Korea's Ministry of Unification said on Tuesday.
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North Korea has said it will dismantle its nuclear test site between May 23 and May 25, to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, its state media reported on Saturday, a month ahead of a planned North Korea-U.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the North Korean nuclear crisis is "a long way from conclusion," tempering his welcome of Pyongyang's announcement it was suspending nuclear and missile tests and scrapping its nuclear test site.
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As the world was on edge last weekend watching to see whether North Korea would conduct its sixth nuclear test, workers at the test site appear to have been playing volleyball, according to satellite imagery and an analysis released Wednesday.
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The defection came after North Korea declined to accept a list of South Korean journalists hoping to observe the closure of its nuclear test site on Friday, raising new questions about the North's commitment to reducing tensions in the region.
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For Trump, that could mean ending North Korea's nuclear and long-range missile testing, closing the test site and possibly getting Pyongyang to dismantle its long-range missiles and make available for inspection a significant chunk of its weapons material.
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SEOUL, Sept 12 (Reuters) - North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Monday, citing South Korean government sources who said the North may use a previously unused tunnel at its mountainous test site.
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Punggye-ri, North Korea (CNN)North Korea appeared to destroy at least three nuclear tunnels, observation buildings, a metal foundry and living quarters at its Punggye-ri nuclear test site on Thursday, in a process observed by invited international journalists.
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The recovered New Shepard rocket launched from Blue Origin's test site in West Texas, brought a capsule to space at an altitude of 101.7 kilometers, and then both the booster and the capsule returned safely back down to the ground.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images show that North Korea may have resumed tunnel excavation at its main nuclear test site, similar to activity seen before the country's most recent nuclear test in January, a U.S. North Korea monitoring website reported on Wednesday.
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Since then, Trump has declared the North Korea problem solved, but recent satellite images show Pyongyang has not made any more progress on dismantling a key missile test site since August, according to U.S.-based North Korea monitor 85033 North.
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Or artists like Andrea Zittel (a friend of Haeg's), who is vaguely affiliated with the ''social practice'' movement, and whose High Desert Test Site near Joshua Tree National Park is also a place where daily life becomes a ''site of exploration.
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The region where the missiles were launched, Kittaeryong, is a known military test site frequently used by the North for short-range missile drills, said Kim Dong-yub, a military expert at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul.
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Underscoring the continuing threat from North Korea's nuclear program, the head of South Korea's weather agency said on Monday that another powerful blast at the North's underground test site could destabilize the area and send radioactive material into the atmosphere.
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At its test site on a boarding school campus outside Tel Aviv, the company has placed copper coils under 900 feet of circular pavement that transmit recharging wireless energy to an electric Renault Zoe test car as it drivers by.
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The other was shifted in December from that test site to an operational base elsewhere in the country, according to a senior official who did not provide further details and requested anonymity to discuss recent intelligence reports about the missile.
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Less than two weeks ago, Mr. Trump welcomed North Korea's plans to dismantle the test site as a "very smart and gracious gesture" ahead of what would have been the first face-to-face meeting between leaders of the two countries.
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After a year of breakthrough missile launches and a sixth nuclear test, Mr. Kim abruptly put his nation on a path toward peace — suspending weapons tests, releasing American prisoners and, just hours before Mr. Trump's announcement, destroying its nuclear test site.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's presidential Blue House will hold a National Security Council meeting at 0200 GMT on Friday after seismic activity was detected near North Korea's known nuclear test site, activity South Korea said could have been a nuclear test.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The world's main nuclear test-ban body stands ready to verify North Korea's closure of its test site but it has yet to be asked and the process would take weeks rather than days, its chief said on Wednesday.
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"We have the technology to verify any agreement linked to the closure of the test site," the head of the Comprehensive nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Lassina Zerbo, told reporters, although it has received no request to do so.
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A Washington-based think tank that monitors North Korea, 38 North, said satellite image taken on Wednesday showed continued activity around the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site the east coast that showed it was ready for a new test.
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Voters in the originally-proposed test site—a small island called Key Haven—rejected the proposal in a non-binding referendum during the election this month, but a county-wide vote was 57 percent in favor of releasing the insects.
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Recent reports that North Korea had started dismantling a rocket test site are consistent with a commitment made by Kim at the summit but it must go further and fully denuclearize, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said during his summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that he would close the country's nuclear test site in May in full view of outside world, Moon's office said on Sunday.
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"I believe in dialogue, but dialogue is possible when it's backed by strong defense and engagement policy is possible only when we have security ability that can overwhelm the North," Moon was quoted by his office as saying at the test site.
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It downplayed the significance of the United States suspending its military exercises with South Korea, something trumpeted by Trump after the summit as a success, by saying it made a larger concession by blowing up the tunnels at a nuclear test site.
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On Tuesday night, the US Geological Survey detected an unusual 5.1-magnitude tremor in North Korea, located in the northeast of the country — a part of the world not known for earthquakes but very close to the nuclear test site of Punggye-ri.
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To sweeten the deal for Washington, Kim also made a major show before foreign media of the closure of his countries&apos nuclear test site, returned three American prisoners and announced a unilateral moratorium on further nuclear tests and long-range missile launches.
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According to the report, the tunnel collapsed at North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site sometime around September 10th, which is about a week after the September 3rd test of a hydrogen bomb—the most powerful nuclear explosion ever achieved by the country.
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With tension mounting between Pyongyang and Washington, analysts had thought they would see activity suggesting preparations for an underground explosion at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and were not expecting what the photos, taken on Sunday by a commercial satellite, revealed.
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SEOUL, Sept 9 (Reuters) - South Korea's presidential Blue House will hold a National Security Council meeting at 0200 GMT on Friday after seismic activity was detected near North Korea's known nuclear test site, activity South Korea said could have been a nuclear test.
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S. Kidman and its prospective buyers said in a statement that the Anna Creek station in South Australia state - reported last year to be too close to a rocket test site for the government's liking - would be kept out of the sale.
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From the North&aposs previous release of three American captives to its apparent decommissioning of a nuclear test site, the historic talks between the U.S. and North Korea appeared all but certain, and then unraveled, but perhaps now will happen after all.
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Before Trump canceled a much-anticipated meeting with Kim Jong Un, North Korea said it demolished what it claimed to be its nuclear test site, setting off several explosions over the course of a few hours in the presence of foreign journalists.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's pledge to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site sounds like a big step forward but verifying whether that will actually happen will be difficult, underlining the complexities of any deal it may strike with the United States.
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Following the North's last nuclear test, in 2013, it was 55 days before radioactive xenon gas was detected at a monitoring station in Japan, located about 1,19613 km (600 miles) from the test site, which pointed to a nuclear blast by Pyongyang.
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Early in his administration, Trump was shown a scale model of North Korea's sprawling nuclear bomb test site with a removable mountaintop and a miniature Statue of Liberty inside so he could grasp the size of the facility, two U.S. officials said.
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Washington-based 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea, said the images from Saturday showed the continued presence of vehicles and trailers at the Punggye-ri test site and signs that communications cables may have been laid to a test tunnel.
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The detainees' release could signal an effort by Kim to set a more positive tone for the summit, which is being planned for late May or early June, following Kim's recent pledge to suspend missile tests and shut Pyongyang's nuclear bomb test site.
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SEOUL, May 15 (Reuters) - North Korea will invite South Korean reporters from one news agency and from one television broadcaster to observe the dismantling of a nuclear test site between May 23 and May 25, South Korea's Ministry of Unification said on Tuesday.
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"Shutting down of this test site also does not tell us anything about the state of North Korean ballistic missile testing, especially its Hwasong-15 ICBMs," he added, referring to the intercontinental missile North Korea tested for the first time last November.
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Kim will welcome Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for a visit in the coming days, and the South Korean presidential office said Pyongyang planned to shutter the country's nuclear test site and invite foreign journalists and experts to ensure "transparency" around its closure.
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In May, we were invited to witness the destruction of tunnel entrances at North Korea's only known nuclear test site, a largely cosmetic and reversible step, analysts said, perhaps aimed more at building President Trump's confidence than achieving complete and irreversible denuclearization.
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The agency said the 2.8-magnitude temblor recorded Wednesday was shallow -- only about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) deep -- and struck about 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) east of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, the only known facility of its kind in North Korea.
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Diplomatically isolated North Korea, under U.N. security Council sanctions for its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, announced the planned shutdown of its nuclear test site amid a dramatic round of contact with its long-time bitter rivals, South Korea and the United States.
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Institute spokesman Michael Levin told The Associated Press that researchers are examining data on diet and radiation exposure on residents who lived near the World War II-era Trinity Test site and scientists expect to finish the study by early next year.
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North Korea has not agreed to stop nuclear and missile developments; open satellite imagery shows it is expanding its capacity to produce plutonium and uranium and to deploy a larger missile force; and the missile test site it offered to dismantle stands intact.
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North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for sometime between May 23-25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country's statemedia reported on Saturday, a month ahead of a planned North Korea-U.
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No missile tests in 2018 North Korea refrained from carrying out any nuclear or missile tests in 2018 and has taken symbolic steps toward denuclearization, such as shuttering a missile test facility and destroying parts of its nuclear test site, Punggye-ri.
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Mr. Chung said Mr. Kim brought up a series of confidence-building measures his country has taken this year, such as a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, demolishing his country's only nuclear test site and dismantling a missile engine-test facility.
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They said it had also not agreed to definitions of the key terms of any agreement, or to any inspection of its nuclear test site, which it claims to have decommissioned, but which U.S. intelligence officials have said may still be operable.
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UFO conspiracy lore has it that a flying saucer crashed near Roswell, and that remains of the craft and alien crew were clandestinely removed from the crash site by the government and taken to a top-secret test site in Nevada for examination.
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The flight, which lasted a little over two hours, was completed by a group that has been flying drones in the Federal Aviation Administration-designated Nevada drone test site, with support from three different drone service companies and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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While North Korea has stopped nuclear and missile tests in the past year, it did not allow international inspections of its dismantling of its Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May, drawing criticism that its action was for show and could be reversed.
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When the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, met with South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in, on April 27, he promised to invite outside journalists and experts this month to watch the dismantling of the test site, Mr. Moon's office said.
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During a meeting last month of the country's ruling Workers' Party, North Korea said it no longer needed nuclear and long-range missile tests or the nuclear test site because its had learned how to build nuclear warheads and mount them on missiles.
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On Friday, the analysts Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Jack Liu posted new satellite images of the nuclear test site in Punggye-ri, in northeastern North Korea, on 38 North, a website affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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