Japan threatens N Korea with UN
From the article:
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has again warned North Korea to return to nuclear talks or face being taken to the UN Security Council.
Analysts say that taking North Korea to the UN could result in international sanctions against the impoverished nation. They say a key deadline may be the end June, which would mark one year since Pyongyang took part in the talks.
North Korea has repeatedly said it would consider sanctions tantamount to a declaration of war.
As reported in the New York Times, American satellite photos "suggested the digging and filling in of a tunnel in the country's remote north east, and the construction of a viewing stand." Which, in turn, suggests that they're going to do a nuclear weapons test. Possibly. If they are, and if they're smart about it, the North Korean government won't announce a weapon test unless and until it succeeds (at which point the U.S. military, at least, will know about it already).*
*Lest I sound like the kind of paranoid conspiracy monger I loathe, I mean that it will be apparent because our surveillance will pick it up, not because we secretly have a hand in it or anything foolish like that.