The North Korean national flag flutters at half mast at the North Korea embassy in Singapore on December 20, 2011.  North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died aged 69 of a heart attack, state media announced, plunging the nuclear-armed and deeply isolated nation into a second dynastic succession.       AFP PHOTO / SIMIN WANG (Photo credit should read SIMIN WANG/AFP/Getty Images)
Officials: Activity at North Korea nuke site
01:06 - Source: CNN

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The activity appears to involve some modifications around one of the tunnel entrances to an underground test area

US officials have known that the site is ready to conduct an underground test for some time

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.

The activity appears to involve some modifications around one of the tunnel entrances t