The vehicle movements resembled work done before North Korea fired a long-range rocket last month, the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
The officials offered no other details but said the United States was closely monitoring North Korea's missile sites and other sensitive facilities amid rising tensions on the peninsula.
The officials also said there was no steam or other tell-tale sign coming from the Yongbyon plutonium reprocessing plant but it remained unclear if the regime had restarted work at the plant.
Tensions have been running high since Kim Jong-Il's regime tested an atomic bomb for the second time and renounced the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.
North Korea on Friday fired a short-range missile, its sixth since Monday, and threatened to take new measures to defend itself if world powers impose sanctions over its nuclear test.
In April, the launch of the long-range rocket was portrayed by Pyongyang as a peaceful move to test a communications satellite. But the United States and its allies said the launch was meant to be a test of a long-range missile.
Japan said the rocket flew over its territory while the boosters landed safely in the waters off its coasts, and that it had not moved to intercept the rocket -- something North Korea had warned would be seen as an act of war.
Pyongyang's Taepodong-2 missile could theoretically reach the US states of Alaska or Hawaii at maximum range, though experts say North Korea has likely not managed to configure a warhead for it yet.
via Photos show activity at NKorean missile site: US - Yahoo! News.
1 comment:
(1) "lil kim" is just a little bitch thats all.
(2) He jumps up and down like a three year old
when his wife will not give him any. No other women will eather, because of his nick name "no dong jong L.O.L" now his wife is laughing at him right along with all the women in the country.
(3)When kim Jong was born the doctor told his mother "Its a girl" then gave him to his mother
then she gao a closer look , she told the doctor;
She not a girl it a boy look at three tiny hairs
one a little thicker than rest, So doctor got magnifying glass and said you right and everyone started laughing, even his mother!
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