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Institute: More digging at NKorea nuke test site

By Matthew Pennington
Published February 13, 2014 7:14pm ET
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Institute: More digging at NKorea nuke test site
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se at the end of their press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Kerry is on his fifth trip to Asia on a mission aimed largely at easing tensions between China and its smaller neighbors over territorial disputes and exploring ways to restart long-stalled multi-party talks on ridding North Korea of nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) | Ahn Young-joon

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has accelerated excavation at a site used for underground nuclear test explosions, though a test doesn’t appear imminent, a U.S. research institute said Thursday.

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