From Yonhap:
North Korea has eight underground tunnels where it can conduct nuclear bomb tests, a South Korean lawmaker claimed Wednesday.
A possible nuclear test site in North Korea has drawn renewed attention after the communist country said Tuesday it would implement atomic-bomb tests, citing a hostile U.S. policy and economic sanctions.
“The eight sites belong to neither military bases nor industrial facilities but there have been continuous works to build horizontal or vertical tunnels there. Their purposes have yet to be verified,” said Rep. Song Young-sun of the main opposition Grand National Party in a press release.
Song, also a member of parliament’s defense committee, said it is likely that any nuclear test by the North would be made on a gallery with horizontal tunnels, as these are cheaper and easier to prepare.
The eight sites include one in Kilju in the North’s northeastern Hamkyong Province, where South Korean media outlets have recently reported suspected activities. The other seven are scattered across the North’s western and northern provinces.
