Update: False Alarm Caused By Earthquake: N.Korea may have Conducted Another Nuclear Test

Posted on October 10, 2006

The Japanese government detected tremors on Wednesday that led it to suspect North Korea had conducted a second nuclear test, officials and news reports said.
Shortly after Japan said it suspected another test had been conducted, the country’s meteorological agency reported a magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook northern Japan.

Info coming in from Tokyo Reuters:

North Korea appears to have conducted another nuclear test, Japanese national broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.

Japanese government sources had information that there was a tremor in North Korea this morning and they were checking on the possibility of a nuclear test, NHK said.

Defying warnings from its neighbors, the United States and the U.N. Security Council, North Korea announced on Monday that it had conducted its first-ever nuclear test. Pyongyang had earlier said a U.S. “threat of nuclear war and sanctions” had forced its hand.

Fox is reporting that the South Koreans have not detected anything.

Ms. Underestimated has video on the report.

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