The Guardian:

While the Trump administration attempts to play hardball with the North Korean regime, workers at the country’s nuclear testing site appear happy to indulge in a more leisurely pursuit: a game of volleyball.

Satellite images taken at the weekend of the Punggye-ri site in the country’s mountainous north-east, showed little human activity to suggest North Korea was preparing to conduct a nuclear test.

But four of the images carried on the 38 North website, a North Korea monitoring project based in Washington, showed teams of people playing volleyball – a popular sport among North Koreans – not far from where the regime has conducted all of its underground nuclear detonations.

“We see that at three locations in the facility – in the main administrative area, at the support area, at the command center and at the guard barracks near the command centre – they have volleyball games going on,” said Joe Bermudez, an expert at 38 North.

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